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Grub Street
Founded in 1997, Grub Street is one of the largest independent centers for creative writing in the United States; its mission is "to be an innovative, rigorous, and welcoming community for writers who...
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Grub Street
Founded in 1997, Grub Street is one of the largest independent centers for creative writing in the United States; its mission is "to be an innovative, rigorous, and welcoming community for writers who...
View ArticleSowell Collection
Created by former Texas Tech University Regent James Sowell, this collection contains the personal papers of some of the country’s most prominent writers on the natural world. Writing with a profound...
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Created by former Texas Tech University Regent James Sowell, this collection contains the personal papers of some of the country’s most prominent writers on the natural world. Writing with a profound...
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Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center houses extensive collections of rare books and manuscripts, including the Gutenberg Bible, Shakespeare folios, and the papers of writers such as Lewis Carroll, J. M. Coetzee,...
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Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center houses extensive collections of rare books and manuscripts, including the Gutenberg Bible, Shakespeare folios, and the papers of writers such as Lewis Carroll, J. M. Coetzee,...
View ArticleLilly Library
The Lilly Library hosts exhibitions and special events such as poetry readings and receptions as well as lectures, tours, and class presentations. Its holdings include about 400,000 books and more than...
View ArticleBeinecke Rare Book And Manuscript Library
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history,...
View ArticleSh*t Agents and Editors Say
It was truly inevitable that publishing folks would get a hold of this particular meme. And so, here we have it: "(The Inevitable) Sh*t Agents and Editors Say," starring agents Michelle Brower and...
View ArticleRichard Hugo House
Founded in 1997, the Richard Hugo House offers writing classes and events, including the annual Hugo Literary Series, which invites established and up-and-coming writers to create new work and debut it...
View ArticleSuper Book Bowl, Zeitoun Arrested, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff The New Yorker examines the plagiarism scandal of Q. R. Markham; Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the hero of Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, was arrested last year for domestic abuse; Open Culture...
View ArticlePick a Slogan
Record the advertising slogans and advertising copy that you encounter throughout the day. Pick one slogan/catchphrase or a brief selection of advertising copy and incorporate it into a poem, without...
View ArticleScrapbook a Story
Find a blank notebook, and for one week fill it with whatever strikes you—images, photographs, cut-out excerpts from articles or books, notes on matchbooks, maps, drawings, and your own writing. At the...
View ArticlePoet Writes Super Bowl Ad, Melville and Poe on Coney Island, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Amazon may be in the process of opening a brick-and-mortar store; the moving Chrysler commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired during the Super Bowl was co-written by poet...
View ArticleCenter for Literary Arts
The Center for Literary Arts provides lectures, conversations, seminars, and readings—including its long-standing Major Authors Series, which features award-winning authors—that allow the San José...
View ArticleUniversity Lit Mag Launches Fiction Contest
Barely South Review, the literary journal of the MFA program at Virginia's Old Dominion University, has announced its first writing contest. read more
View ArticleLetterpress Printing
"Then a Ploughman said / Speak to us of Work." This video showing the process of printing a short excerpt from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet may be a wee bit slow at times, but what did you expect? It's...
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Nathaniel Bellows
Writer Photo Credit: Cloud Devine bellows.jpg “Usually when I need to work something out in a poem or a piece of fiction, I go on a walk.read more
View ArticleHow-to Manual
Using Lorrie Moore's "How To Be An Other Woman" from Self-Help (Knopf, 1985) as inspiration, turn a personal experience into a twelve- (or more) step, how-to manual. The piece can be a simple...
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Using Lorrie Moore's "How To Be An Other Woman" from Self-Help (Knopf, 1985) as inspiration, turn a personal experience into a twelve- (or more) step, how-to manual. The piece can be a simple...
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