Wolf Dust
“What light comes / between / your nightgown and you?” Joshua Marie Wilkinson reads a poem from his collection Selenography (Sidebrow Books, 2010). Wilkinson is featured in "Writing the Road: Advice...
View ArticleRestored Edition of The Duke’s Children, EFG Short Story Prize Shortlist, and...
Staff Jorie Graham’s influence; Canadian nonfiction challenges; obscure allusions; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine...
View ArticleA Room of One’s Own, Shared
Kara Krauze founded Voices From War in 2013 and teaches literature and writing in the workshop for veterans, along with writer Nathan Bradley Bethea, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.read more
View ArticleSunday Times EFG Short Story Award Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award has been announced. Sponsored by Booktrust, Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper, and the EFG Private Bank, the annual prize of £30,000...
View ArticleTim Seibles
"In this country, poetry is largely ignored." Tim Seibles speaks with City of Asylum Pittsburgh about poetry in the United States, his fascination with how sexuality is expressed, and how he gets into...
View ArticleSee the Light
“It was so overwhelming.… It’s hard to put into words because, for the first time in thirty-three years, I’m seeing light.” Jerry Hester is the first patient in North Carolina to receive the Argus II...
View ArticlePaul Beatty’s “Post-Racial” Satire, MFA-gate; and More
Staff Print's permanence; shame and a late Thomas Hardy essay; bestselling author’s return to self-publishing; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day...
View ArticleAmnesia
"The one thing we know about Felix, for all his good heart and his good feelings, it isn't always necessary for him to be there to report something." Booker Prize winner Peter Carey talks about Felix...
View ArticleComplicate It
Children’s stories are often allegorical and presented in a straightforward manner. This week, take your favorite children’s story, fairy tale, or myth and complicate it. Use the original as a...
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Sandman Book Company
Sandman Book Company is an independent, locally owned bookshop in Punta Gorda, Florida. Presided over by bookstore cat Kitty-Wan Kenobi, the shop sells new and used books, and hosts a variety of...
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Watermark Books and Cafe
Watermark Books & Cafe is an independent bookstore in Witchita, Kansas. The Watermark Cafe serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner as well as a variety of pastries, cookies, and other treats. The...
View ArticleKamau Brathwaite Awarded Frost Medal, Maya Angelou Stamp Revealed, and More
Staff Mal Peet has died; Lambda Literary Award finalists announced; nameless narrators; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers...
View ArticleEmpowerment
“Let it be known: I did not fall from grace. / I leapt / to freedom.” The ending of Ansel Elkin’s poem "Autobiography of Eve" is packed with confidence. Write an essay reflecting on a time when you...
View ArticleThe Lambda Literary Foundation
"Where I grew up, I never met a writer." Justin Torres, author of We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), speaks about his experience as a Lambda Literary fellow in 2007, and how that...
View ArticleCoffee House Press Launches Imprint, World Book Day, and More
Staff Why we need Claudia Rankine; new poetry anthology; NaNoWriMo receives grant; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine...
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Alice Eve Cohen
cohen_alice_110.jpgWriter Photo Credit: Janet Charles “Years ago, a friend told me that she thinks of writer’s block as ‘fallow time,’ the season the farmer leaves the field unsown so that crops can...
View ArticleElizabeth McCracken Wins Story Prize
Last night in New York City, Elizabeth McCracken was announced the winner of the tenth-annual Story Prize for her collection Thunderstruck (The Dial Press). The $20,000 prize is awarded for a short...
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Pen Parentis at Andaz Wall Street
Name of Reading Series: Pen Parentis Literary Salons Contact Name: Milda De Voe, founder E-mail: info@penparentis.org Phone Number: (212) 501-2031On the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM,...
View ArticleGet in Trouble
Kelly Link discusses the reasons and options for the title of her new story collection, published by Random House last month, with author and book critic Lev Grossman. Get in Trouble is featured in...
View ArticleTomaž Šalamun Tribute, International Women’s Day, and More
Staff Academy of American Poets expands prize eligibility criteria; Clean Reader app; Roald Dahl’s letter to a young writer; and other news. Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the...
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