Author of the novel Motown Burning, and the poetry collection Stone + Fist + Brick + Bone, Detroit native John Jeffire teaches English at Chippewa Valley High School where he’s organized P&W-supported after-school performances. Jeffire shared with us how these events have enriched the students’ lives.
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Archive December 2011
Detroit Rocks the Mic With John Jeffire at Chippewa Valley High School
A blog from: The Staff of Poets & Writers
Posted by RW Blogger on 12.16.11
Poetry Foundation Holds Book Contest for Debut Poets Over Forty
A blog from: Poets & Writers Magazine
Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.15.11
The Poetry Foundation in Chicago, supporter of emerging young poets through its Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships, has announced that it will once again administer the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, an occasional prize for unpublished poets of at least forty years of age.
December 15
Posted by Writing Prompter on 12.15.11
Write a story that opens with your main character doing something that is completely antithetical to his or her personality. Let the story be about how this character came to do what he or she did.
Amazon and Penguin Announce Fifth Annual Breakthrough Novel Contest
A blog from: Poets & Writers Magazine
Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.13.11
Once again in 2012 Amazon will partner with Penguin Group to hold a contest for early-career novelists.
December 12
Posted by Writing Prompter on 12.12.11
Look back through the poems you've written this year and make a list of images or words you've repeated. This list will guide you toward identifying your poetic obsessions. Choose one of your poetic obsessions and write a poem that fully explores it.
Mike Sonksen and the Last Bookstore
A blog from: The Staff of Poets & Writers
Posted by RW Blogger on 12.12.11
P&W-supported spoken word artist Mike Sonksen, author of I am Alive in Los Angeles, blogs about The Last Bookstore.
Suzanne Lummis on Lummis Day Festival
A blog from: The Staff of Poets & Writers
Posted by RW Blogger on 12.09.11
Suzanne Lummis, poet and director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, blogs about the P&W-supported Lummis Day Festival in Los Angeles.
First Novel Prize Goes to Twenty-First Century Lolita
A blog from: Poets & Writers Magazine
Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.08.11
The Center for Fiction in New York City has announced the winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, formerly the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize.
December 8
Posted by Writing Prompter on 11.08.11
Write a story structured around a series of vignettes based on the descriptions of imagined photographs. For an example, read Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First: Outtakes From the Sheidegger-Krupnik Wedding Album," included in The Best American Short Stories, 1999 (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
Two Poets Withdraw From Literary Award Due to Corporate Sponsorship
A blog from: Poets & Writers Magazine
Posted by Prize Reporter on 12.07.11
About six weeks after the announcement of the finalists for this year's T. S. Eliot Prize, a fifteen-thousand-pound award (approximately $23,500) given for a poetry collection, two poets have dropped off the shortlist.