New J. D. Salinger Letters, Neil Gaiman's Author Advice, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Truman Capote's marked-up Breakfast at Tiffany's manuscript is up for auction; Colorado-based Mud Luscious Press has shuttered; Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald has been named...
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Submissions are currently open for Black Balloon Publishing’s inaugural Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize, an award of $5,000 and a book deal with Black Balloon given for a fiction manuscript. The deadline...
View ArticleShow and Tell
We’ve all heard the adage “Show, don’t tell.” But in his latest book, To Show and Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (Free Press, 2013), Phillip Lopate argues that the personal essay is perhaps the...
View ArticleThe Smart Approach to Contest Submissions
May/June 2013 Staff Here are seven strategies for a more efficient (and hopefully more effective) process of submitting your work to contests.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the...
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Bon Appétit: How Food Writing Fed My Fiction
May/June 2013 Aaron Hamburger State: New York Fiction writer Aaron Hamburger got more than he bargained for when he signed up for a class in food writing. Instead of simply learning about a new genre,...
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Q&A: The New Publisher of Little, Brown
May/June 2013 Kevin Nance Reagan Arthur, the new publisher of Little, Brown, discusses her new role and the health of the company she now leads through these uncertain times in publishing.Article...
View ArticleWhere Freedom Grows
May/June 2013 Carrie Neill The biennial Gift of Freedom Award, sponsored by the Placitas, New Mexico-based A Room of Her Own Foundation, transcends competition by acting as an agent for change in the...
View ArticleDigital Digest: Algorithms for What to Read Next
May/June 2013 Adrian Versteegh As online book reviews and user-sourced suggestion models have become increasingly important to the bookselling industry, publishers are developing new digital platforms...
View ArticleNew J. D. Salinger Letters, Neil Gaiman's Author Advice, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Truman Capote's marked-up Breakfast at Tiffany's manuscript is up for auction; Colorado-based Mud Luscious Press has shuttered; Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald has been named...
View ArticleDeadline Approaches for Black Balloon Book Prize
Submissions are currently open for Black Balloon Publishing’s inaugural Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize, an award of $5,000 and a book deal with Black Balloon given for a fiction manuscript. The deadline...
View ArticleShow and Tell
We’ve all heard the adage “Show, don’t tell.” But in his latest book, To Show and Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (Free Press, 2013), Phillip Lopate argues that the personal essay is perhaps the...
View ArticleColors of Penguin
Founded in 1935, Penguin Books revolutionized marketing and publishing by producing inexpensive softcovers with an instantly recognizable design. Richard from AbeBooks.com gives viewers a color-coded...
View ArticleWikipedia's Sub-Category for Women Novelists, Maya Angelou Hospitalized, and...
Evan Smith Rakoff The state of Kentucky has appointed Frank X Walker its new poet laureate; after a brief hospitalization, poet Maya Angelou is resting at home; Ester Bloom refutes the claim that male...
View ArticleThe Smart Approach to Contest Submissions
May/June 2013 Staff Here are seven strategies for a more efficient (and hopefully more effective) process of submitting your work to contests.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the...
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Bon Appétit: How Food Writing Fed My Fiction
May/June 2013 Aaron Hamburger State: New York Fiction writer Aaron Hamburger got more than he bargained for when he signed up for a class in food writing. Instead of simply learning about a new genre,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Q&A: The New Publisher of Little, Brown
May/June 2013 Kevin Nance Reagan Arthur, the new publisher of Little, Brown, discusses her new role and the health of the company she now leads through these uncertain times in publishing.Article...
View ArticleWhere Freedom Grows
May/June 2013 Carrie Neill The biennial Gift of Freedom Award, sponsored by the Placitas, New Mexico-based A Room of Her Own Foundation, transcends competition by acting as an agent for change in the...
View ArticleDigital Digest: Algorithms for What to Read Next
May/June 2013 Adrian Versteegh As online book reviews and user-sourced suggestion models have become increasingly important to the bookselling industry, publishers are developing new digital platforms...
View ArticleBenjamin Percy
A frequent contributor to Poets & Writers Magazine (check out his urgent essay in the current issue), Benjamin Percy has a new book coming out. A werewolf novel for the literary set, Red Moon is...
View ArticleDeadline Approaches for Black Balloon Book Prize
Submissions are currently open for Black Balloon Publishing’s inaugural Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize, an award of $5,000 and a book deal with Black Balloon given for a fiction manuscript. The deadline...
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