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In addition to features from the award-winning print edition, the magazine online offers daily news items, advice from writers, and our popular blog about writing contests.
In addition to features from the award-winning print edition, the magazine online offers daily news items, advice from writers, and our popular blog about writing contests.
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Online Only, posted 5.17.13
Pearson has terminated nineteen employees; actor Jeremy Irons revealed his love for T. S. Eliot; the New Yorker surveyed novelists Margaret Atwood, Donald Antrim, Rivka Galchen, and others, asking them to discuss character likeability; and other news.
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Online Only, posted 5.16.13
E-book sales almost doubled in 2012; Ruth Graham investigates the roots of the ubiquitous wedding poem; Benjamin Lytal looks at the close relationship between the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Willa Cather, and other news.
by Evan Smith Rakoff
Online Only, posted 5.15.13
Bret Easton Ellis answered questions about his disparaging remarks about David Foster Wallace; Bill Morris revisits the life, work, and childhood home of Henry Miller; Michael Saler examines the philosopical origins of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and other news.
by Staff
May/June 2013
Here are seven strategies for a more efficient (and hopefully more effective) process of submitting your work to contests.
by Aaron Hamburger
May/June 2013
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, he also learned some valuable lessons about the one he'd been practicing for years.
by Jen Michalski
Author Jen Michalski takes us on a tour of the many literary sites writers should visit while strolling the gritty streets of Baltimore.
by Frank Bures
January/February 2013
Contributing editor Frank Bures recalls a meeting with the late poet Paul Gruchow during his formative years, a memory that sparks a personal investigation to better understand the stories we tell ourselves in an unconcious attempt to make sense of our lives.
by Brenda Shaughnessy and Craig Morgan Teicher
September/October 2012
After navigating a devastating crisis, husband-and-wife poets Craig Morgan Teicher and Brenda Shaughnessy reflect on the fortifying powers of poetry and their commitment to their marriage and one another’s work.
by Carrie Neill
January/February 2013
Flying Object, a nonprofit artists and writers collaborative located in Hadley, Massachusetts, attracts hundreds of writers every month through classes, workshops, readings, exhibitions, and a do-it-yourself letterpress studio.
May is Short Story Month! Watch a video celebration of the form in our recent installment of Clips; read about Flavorwire's new short fiction contest in G&A: The Contest Blog; and research markets for your stories in our Small Presses and Literary Magazines databases.
And of course there is plenty for poets here too, including this recent entry by Joseph O. Legaspi in our Readings & Workshops Blog, in which he asks, "Am I poet enough?"
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