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Archive July 2011

Since 2010, P&W-supported poet and spoken word artist Clara Nura Sala has been conducting poetry workshops with veterans. We asked Clara to describe the experience.

The German Haus der Kulturen der Welt has awarded its twenty-five-thousand-euro (roughly thirty-five-thousand-dollar) International Literature Award to Russian writer Mikhail Schischkin for his novel Venushaar (Maiden's Hair).

Think about an incident from your life—something especially monumental, unexpected, or traumatic that altered the way you see the world. Write a story or essay about it, but from someone else’s perspective. You can appear as a character in the story, but explore it from outside of yourself, as an event that happened, but not one that happened to you.

Experiment with form, creating an upcycled poetic object, by writing a poem using found materials.

On May 5 Detroit’s InsideOut Literary Arts Project held its first annual youth writing conference, featuring P&W-supported writers Eddie B. Allen, Matt Bell, Nandi Comer, jessica Care moore, Norene Cashen Smith, and Marcus Wicker. We asked project director Alise Alousi to describe the event.

This summer SMITH Magazine is bringing writers another of its famed challenges in literary brevity.

Archive July 2011

Clara Sala Workshops With Veterans

Russian Author Yet to Be Translated in U.S. Wins International Literature Prize

July 7

July 5

Olga Garcia's Border Towns

InsideOut Teens Tell Stories From the Edge

A Challenge of Six for Your Fourth