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Wensink Reveals Amazon Bestseller Royalties, Death of the Boston Phoenix, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
The Christian Science Monitor reports independent bookstores are increasing sales; Author Patrick Wensink candidly reveals how much money he made after breaking into the Amazon top ten; Susan Orlean shares her memories of working for the Boston Phoenix; and other news.
Q&A: Levin Expands Idea of Writing Space
by Melissa Faliveno
March/April 2013
Melissa Levin of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council discusses how the nonprofit organization, which was displaced both by the September 11 attacks and more recently Hurricane Sandy, continues to provide office and studio space to writers and artists in lower Manhattan.
Inspiration Flies High
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.
A Novel Approach: Learning to Write More Than Stories
by John Stazinski
January/February 2012
The Grub Street literary center has created a long-form fiction class that might offer a cure for the novel-writing anxiety that the traditionally story-centric MFA workshop isn’t equipped to resolve.
Denver
by Jenny Shank
In this tour of the Mile High City, novelist Jenny Shank visits the sites, writing groups, organizations, and presses that, despite a down economy, keep her hometown's literary spirit alive in the bootstrapping tradition of those “roaring drunken miners” who founded it.
Miami, Florida
by P. Scott Cunningham
P. Scott Cunningham, poet and director of the literary festival O, Miami, gives a writer's tour of Miami, Florida—a city in the throes of cultural enlightenment.
Latino Poets Connect at CantoMundo
by Belinda Acosta
November/December 2011
CantoMundo, a burgeoning Latino poets workshop in its second year, has become the third organization to make up an unofficial triad aimed at nurturing the work of American poets of color.
Washington, D.C.
by Carolyn Parkhurst
New York Times best-selling author Carolyn Parkhurst shares the bookstores, reading series, and other literary landmarks of Washington, D.C., that make it “a beautiful, vibrant, creative city."
Workshop: A Rant Against Creative Writing Classes
by Dan Barden
March/April 2008
“Can you really teach creative writing?” Professor and novelist Dan Barden answers this while offering his own unorthodox approaches to teaching a workshop.
Reading How You're Read: The Art of Evaluating Criticism
by Ann Pancake
May/June 2007
Novelist and professor Ann Pancake gives advice on how to evaluate criticism of your work.