Thurber House Announces New Residency Contest
Beginning next fall the childhood home of author and humorist James Thurber will open its doors annually to one writer for a monthlong retreat. read more
View ArticleThe Failed Writer
In the latest installment of his Failed Writer series, Yuvi Zalkow talks about his love affair with failure and how it serves him as a writer. "If you haven't already, give it a try," he says. "Be a...
View ArticleSteve Almond on Police Actions, Tiny Brontë Manuscript, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Novelist Steve Almond writes of the actions of law enforcement officers at UC Davis and elsewhere; a doll-sized manuscript handwritten by Charlotte Brontë has been discovered; the...
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Peter Selgin
selgin.jpg “A writer far more experienced than I once said to me something like, ‘You’ve got to bushwhack past the first million or so rotten words to get at the good stuff.’ read more
View ArticleNovember 24
Write a scene from a story set at the Thanksgiving day table. During dinner have one of your character's reveal a secret or news that doesn't go over well among his or her family or dinner hosts....
View ArticleNominees for the Story Prize Speak on Process and Inspiration
The Story Prize, the annual twenty-thousand-dollar award for a short story collection, closed its 2011 competition entry pool earlier this month—and now its blog is offering a close look at the writers...
View ArticleA Tomb for Boris Davidovich
This short film, directed by Aleksandar Kostic and narrated by Miki Manojlovic, was inspired by Danilo Kiš's story "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich." Kiš, a Yugoslavian writer who was influenced by...
View ArticleNovember 28
Write a poem to or about a person close to you using any of the senses except sight.
View ArticleDaisy Fried on William Carlos Williams, Kerouac's Juvenilia, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff The weekend after Thanksgiving, president Obama took his daughters to shop at an independent bookstore; poet Daisy Fried reviews Herbert Leibowitz's new William Carlos Williams...
View ArticleKelly Harris On Pinkie Gordon Lane
P&W-supported poet/activist Kelly Harris, founder of GAP: Girls. Achieving. Possibilities., an empowerment program for African American girls, blogs about Pinkie Gordon Lane's legacy. I know New...
View ArticleTwo Poets Withdraw From Literary Award Due to Corporate Sponsorship
About six weeks after the announcement of the finalists for this year's T. S. Eliot Prize, a fifteen-thousand-pound award (approximately $23,500) given for a poetry collection, two poets have dropped...
View ArticleDecember 8
Write a story structured around a series of vignettes based on the descriptions of imagined photographs. For an example, read Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First: Outtakes From the...
View Article"Three" by Marc Basch
In Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation, Jason Mitcham animates a sentence from Marc Basch's "Three," a story published in Issue 6. Music by Meredith Varn. Video URL:...
View ArticleJustice Probe Into E-Book Pricing, Charles Simic on Youth and Aging, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff The Department of Justice has confirmed it's looking into possible collusion over e-book pricing; poet Charles Simic reflects on his youth and age; Marilynne Robinson on American...
View ArticleFirst Novel Prize Goes to Twenty-First Century Lolita
The Center for Fiction in New York City has announced the winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, formerly the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. read more
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Suzanne Lummis On Lummis Day Festival
Suzanne Lummis, poet and director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, blogs about the P&W-supported Lummis Day Festival in Los Angeles. Publish Date: December 9, 2011 - 3:00am read more
View ArticleTo Die By Your Side
Olympia Le-Tan's embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in this amazing stop-motion film directed by Spike Jonze and Simon Cahn and animated by Sylvain Derosne and Léonard Cohen. Mourir Auprès de Toi...
View ArticleCharles Bernstein on the Poetics of OWS, Algonquin's Banished Cat, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Poet Charles Bernstein discusses the Occupy Wall Street protests; New York City's Department of Health has ordered that Matilda, the Algonquin Hotel's famous lobby cat, be confined;...
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