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Daily News

AWP Fires Executive Director, Writers on Social Media, and More

Sep 16, 2019

The National Book Foundation announces the longlist for its young people’s literature award; Esmé...
A Mountain of Books, a Crevasse of Rejection, and More

Sep 13, 2019

Edmund White to receive an honorary National Book Award; Monique Truong’s new novel; the threat...

Writing Prompts

The Illegible Layer

Creative Nonfiction

In Marguerite Duras’s 1985 essay, “Reading on the Train,” from the collection Me & Other...
School Days

Fiction

“When you’re in boarding school you imagine how grand and fine the world is, and when you leave...
Ghost in the Skin

Poetry

In “Sisters,” from Brian Evenson’s story collection Song for the Unraveling of the World...

Tools for writers

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Literary Events Calendar

September 17, 2019
Fiction Read and Critique with T. Greenwood
Inspirations Gallery10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
September 17, 2019
Mindfair Poets in Oberlin
Ben Franklin & MindFair Books4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
September 17, 2019
Truth to Words Out of the Bronx
Bronx Library Center5:30 PM

Readings & Workshops

Alla Abdulla-Matta presents her work at the Ninth Annual Connecting Cultures Reading. The event took place at the Center for Book Arts in New York, New York on May 15, 2018. (Credit: Margarita Corporan)

Poet Juan Delgado at the Cholla Needles Monthly Reading. The event took place at Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree, California on October 7, 2018. (Credit: Bob DeLoyd)

Marty Carrera at the Seventeenth Annual Intergenerational Reading. The event took place at Barnes & Noble Union Square in New York, New York on June 23, 2018. (Credit: Margarita Corporan)

Poets & Writers Theater

A MILLION LITTLE PIECES Trailer (2019) Charlie Hunnam, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

A Million Little Pieces (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2003), the controversial and fabricated best-selling memoir by James Frey, has been adapted into a feature film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob... more

United States of Writing

Citywide Poets at ArtBlock

Posted by USW Blogger on 9.16.19

Last week I helped organize InsideOut’s annual Citywide Poets orientation, which preps the writing mentors who will lead after-school sessions in local high schools and community centers in Detroit from October through May. This year the program is... more

Audio

Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison

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