The Smitten Author
"It's okay to love your writing. Just don't love your writing." This rather quirky clip acknowledges the inevitable approach of the year's most saccharine holiday, Valentine's...
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W. H. Auden’s poem “Musée des Beaux Arts" draws inspiration from Pieter Bruegel's painting Landscape With the Fall of Icarus. Many poets have found inspiration in other media: Painting, sculpture, even...
View ArticleA Look Inside the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, George Packer on Amazon, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Amazon’s editorial director offers a bevy of love stories for Valentine’s Day; Open Road will acquire digital publisher E-Reads; Eric Bennett details his time at the venerable Iowa...
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Celeste Ng
celeste-ng-headshot-photo-credit-kevin-day-photography-920x614.jpg“Like many writers, I spend a lot of time by myself, so I sometimes get stuck in the echo chamber of my own brain. The best remedy I’ve...
View ArticleDeadline Approaches for South Carolina First Novel Prize
The biennial South Carolina First Novel Prize, sponsored by Hub City Press and the South Carolina Arts Commission, is currently open for submissions. The winner will receive $1,000, publication, and...
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Los Angeles: Inspiration 9.8
Why We Write panelist Harryette Mullen.Image Credit: Stephanie Diani
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Los Angeles: Inspiration 9.9
The inaugural Poets & Writers Live event was held at the literary arts center Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles.Image Credit: Stephanie Diani
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The Poets & Writers Live event on January 11, 2014, featured Dani Shapiro, Ron Carlson, Charles Yu, Meghan Daum, Harryette Mullen, Lauren Humphrey, Rick Lupert, Tracy Kato-Kirayama, Terry...
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Dani Shapiro: Los Angeles 2014
dani_shapiro_final.mp3Dani Shapiro is the author of five novels and three memoirs, including most recently Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, published last October by Atlantic...
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Kevin Powers Homepage Slideshow Photo
homepage_kevinpowers.jpgKevin Powers, author most recently of the poetry collection Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting and featured in Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 2014. Credit:...
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The Exiles: Report From Literary Syria
March/April 2014 Stephen Morison Jr. In a continuing series examining the state of literature abroad, poets Amjad Etry and Hala Mohammad and filmmaker Muhammad Bayazid discuss the challenges that...
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Agents & Editors: Amy Einhorn
March/April 2014 Michael Szczerban State: New York The publisher of her eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House, Amy Einhorn discusses her early days as an assistant at FSG, the importance of...
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Q&A: Brenda Greene Celebrates Black Literature
March/April 2014 Charif Shanahan The executive director of the Center for Black Literature celebrates a decade of service and looks forward to this month’s National Black Writers Conference in New York...
View ArticleStudents Serve as Poet Ambassadors
March/April 2014 Amanda Calderon State: District of Columbia This April, during National Poetry Month, and through September, five high school students will work to promote poetry across the...
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Architecture for Travelers
March/April 2014 Jonathan Vatner State: Texas This spring poets Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu will build a house together after exploring the meaning of home through writing, photography, and a 680-mile...
View ArticleChris Parris-Lamb of the Gernert Company
If I’m a hermit by choice (find crowds draining, don’t do public speaking well), how does that reduce my chances of being published? Would an agent and/or publisher see that as a marketing nightmare?I...
View ArticleAmy Rennert of the Amy Rennert Agency
Is self-publishing my early work going to cost me later in my literary career? Does an agent perceive self-published work as a demerit?I believe self-publishing is a better option than ever before—for...
View ArticleLocal Writing
This week, write about your neighborhood. Try to emphasize its particularities—if you live in a city, this may be the restaurants you frequent, your local newsstand, or the place that begins your...
View ArticleMaggie Estep
"The sky is pouring itself down my throat because I'm wide open because I'm so glad I'm happy." Maggie Estep, the novelist and spoken word poet who passed away on Wednesday after suffering a heart...
View ArticleOlympic Poetry, Newly Digitized Hemingway Ephemera, and More
Melissa Faliveno Slam poet and cultural icon Maggie Estep has died; Kwame Dawes writes Olympics-inspired poetry; Apple loses recent appeal in e-book case; and more.Page 1This is all the info relevant...
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