Show 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 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 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 ArticleMatt McGowan of Frances Goldin Literary Agency
I write literary fiction and have completed four novels and one hundred pages of a memoir with a proposal. I’ve published extensively in literary journals and anthologies—stories excerpted from the...
View ArticleThe Last Bookshop
What would a world without books look like? Written and codirected by Richard Dadd along with Dan Fryer, The Last Bookshop was shot in bookstores around London and Kent. "We love bookshops," the...
View ArticleFavorite Line
Choose a favorite or compelling line from another writer's poem, and write your own line with same number of stressed syllables and same vowel sounds. Use this line as the start of a new poem.
View ArticleWilliam Zinsser's Writing Advice, Literary Rules for Social Media, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Michael Bourne suggests it's time to dispense with the typical book review; the New York Times sits down with William Zinsser, author of the classic On Writing Well; January Gill...
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Cherryl Floyd-Miller
“I once had a blind friend ask me to close my eyes and describe a restaurant for him. I tried descriptions from memory, using only my sense of sight. With my eyes closed, though, I could describe fork...
View ArticleShort Stories
May is Short Story Month, and in this video from Open Road Media, acclaimed short story writers such as James Jones, Susan Minot, Peter Cameron, David Corbett, Nicola Barker, Bradford Morrow, and...
View ArticleRW EAST- Kingsbridge Heights Community Center
The Poets & Writers Grant, to support this year's poet and teacher Luke Nephew at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center in the Bronx, has again allowed us to continue an activity that offers so...
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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...
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