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Black Mountain Institute Drops the Believer, New Book Series Honors Black Thinkers and Artists,...

Oct 20, 2021

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Oct 19, 2021

The men who constructed “Spain’s Elena Ferrante,” Carmen Mola; coauthors Laura Blackett and Eve...

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Professing

Fiction

In an interview on Literary Hub, Ruth Ozeki talks about a transformative experience she had in...
Driving

Poetry

“Monastic firs, marginal, / conical, in brooding snoods / a finical sun unpacks, clerical / in...
Listing the Ways

Creative Nonfiction

The final months of the year can provide a time to reflect on and list the many things for which...

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Literary Events Calendar

October 20, 2021
CLOSED: (Not) Dead (Yet) Poets' Society with Ron Salisbury
The Ink Spot10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
October 20, 2021
October Grubby Desk Lunch- Free Writing Workshop
Online12:30 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
October 20, 2021
Robin Wall Kimmerer Virtual Reading
Online12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT

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

Tracy K. Smith reads "Annunciation"

“I’ve turned old. I ache most / To be confronted by the real, / By the cold, the pitiless, the bleak.” In this 2018 video from the 92nd Street Y, Tracy K. Smith reads her poem “Annunciation,” which appears in her new collection, Such Color:... more

G&A: The Contest Blog

Breakout! Writers Prize Open for Submissions

Posted by Prize Reporter on 10.15.21

The deadline is approaching for the fourth annual Breakout! Writers Prize, sponsored by Epiphany Magazine and the Authors Guild. Four prizes of $1,000 each, publication in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Epiphany, a membership with... more

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The Perishing by Natashia Deón

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Ten Questions for Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

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“I need to be involved with life, its business, its noise.” —Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, author of The House of Rust

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An excerpt from The Art of Revision: The Last Word by Peter Ho Davies, forthcoming in November from Graywolf Press.

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Agent Advice: Larissa Melo Pienkowski of Jill Grinberg Literary Management

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The agent who represents writers TJ Alexander and K. Tempest Bradford, among others, answers questions about being ghosted by agents and how to query for nonfiction books.

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A Writer’s Garden of Sound

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Curious about the pleasures and sounds of nonliterary language, author Rita Bullwinkel has created Oral Florist, an online sound library in which artists and writers read recipes, user manuals, and other encountered texts.

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Literary MagNet: Ye Chun

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The author on five literary journals that published selections from her story collection Hao.

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GalleyCrush: Return Flight

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Jennifer Huang’s Return Flight, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions on January 18, 2022.

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5 Over 50: 2021

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In this online supplement to our annual print feature celebrating debut authors over the age of fifty, Jeffrey J. Higa, Ursula Pike, Megan Culhane Galbraith, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Vinod Busjeet share excerpts from their first books.

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“After losing my sight, I found comfort in my favorite movies, ones I had seen so many times I remembered the pictures that accompanied voices and soundscapes. Returning to Rain Man, Stand By Me, and Jaws with only my ears, I was...”