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July 26, 2021
Tarot Journaling: A Heart’s Compass Approach
San Diego Writers12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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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)

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Carl Phillips reads “Effort at Speech Between Two People”

“I will tell you all. I will conceal nothing.” In this installment of the Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica video series, Carl Phillips reads the poem “Effort at Speech Between Two People” by Muriel Rukeyser. more

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Upcoming Contest Deadlines 

Posted by Prize Reporter on 7.23.21

As the Olympics kick off, seek out some worthy competition of your own. Opportunities abound for poets, fiction writers, and nonfictions writers in these nine contests with deadlines of July 31. All award a cash prize of $1,000 or more and... more

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First Fiction: Anthony Veasna So

by Alex Torres | Feature 6.16.21

Alex Torres reflects on the literary legacy of his beloved partner, Anthony Veasna So, the author of the debut story collection Afterparties, who died in December 2020.

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Craft Capsule: Why You Need an Authenticity Editor

by Anjali Enjeti | Craft Capsules 7.26.21

The author of Southbound and The Parted Earth writes about how authenticity editors have helped enrich her work in all genres.

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GalleyCrush: Villainy

by Staff | GalleyCrush 7.23.21

Andrea Abi-Karam’s Villainy, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on September 14, 2021.

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Conservation Stories

by Emma Hine | News and Trends 6.16.21

The nonprofit Creature Conserve brings together artists, writers, and scientists through classes, events, and more, all with a mission to support conservation by focusing on how we tell stories about animals.

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Doireann Ní Ghríofa

7.21.21

“Whenever my writing snarls itself into a tangle, I always take the same approach—I carry that horrible knot to bed and quench the lamp. Then, I wait. In the dark, my drowsy mind probes that tangle, whirling under it and around it, nudging and...”

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Peter LaBerge of the Adroit Journal

7.21.21

I remember the high school summer workshop exercise like it was yesterday. The task was to discuss “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” by Matthew Rohrer and decide whether it was a strange poem about normal things or a normal poem about...”

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Ten Questions for Katie Kitamura

by Staff | Ten Questions 7.20.21

“I only write about the things that haunt me in some way.” —Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies

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First Fiction 2021

by Staff | Feature 6.16.21

Excerpts from the titles by Eric Nguyen, Lee Lai, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Joss Lake, Pik-Shuen Fung, and the late Anthony Veasna So featured in our annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction.

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Craft Capsule: The Multi-Genre Mindset

by Anjali Enjeti | Craft Capsules 7.19.21

The author of Southbound and The Parted Earth shares her approach to balancing projects in multiple genres.