Sophomore Slump: The Perils of Publishing a Second Book
Novelist Jack Riggs reveals the unexpected challenges of publishing (and writing) the follow-up to a successful debut.
Department: The Practical Writer
Inside Indie Bookstores: Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
In the inaugural installment of Inside Indie Bookstores, a new series of interviews with the entrepreneurs who represent the last link in the chain that connects writers with their intended audience, Jeremiah Chamberlin talks with Richard Howorth about his initial vision for Square Books, how a bookstore can stay relevant in the twenty-first century, and the future of independent bookselling.
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Bullseye: How to Submit to Subtropics
A guide to sending your work to Subtropics, the literary magazine published by the creative writing department of the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Bullseye: How to Submit to Ninth Letter
A guide to sending your work to Ninth Letter, a literary journal produced by students and faculty of the creative writing program and the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Learning the Trade: The Indie Bookstore as Incubator
Work at an independent bookstore connects an emerging writer to the literary world.
Go the Distance: What Rocky Taught Me About Submission
How to apply the persistence, discipline, and heart that fuels the practice of writing to the process of submission.
Confessions of an Author Nomad: Promoting Your Books at All Costs
An itinerant author talks about giving up the comforts of home in order to promote her writing.
The Audio Revolution: How to Amplify Your Poems
If we agree that poetry is partly music, then we must also concede that to read a poem is partly to sing it. And when you consider that most Americans know by heart the words of at least one popular song—the one that has been played over and over again on the radio and been downloaded countless times from iTunes—it's easy to see their love of language as a tremendous opportunity.
First: Victor Lodato's Mathilda Savitch
Playwright Victor Lodato found that the story of his precocious young character Mathilda Savitch would be better told in the pages of a novel than in a work for the stage.
Bullseye: How to Submit to Tin House Magazine
A guide to sending your work to the ten-year-old Tin House Magazine.
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