If you do use Duotrope, then I hope you will consider making a donation soonish as they are in the red zone for this month–donate HERE. If you are a writer who submits work and you’ve never heard of or used Duotrope, then you might consider it, as it is certainly one of the best resources I’ve found for market information.
Rebellion, an anthology within which I have a story, was named a “Fiction & Literature: Anthologies” finalist in the USA Book News 2006 Best Book Awards. Read about it on: USA Book News
AGNI is hosting a reading by Australian writer Girija Tropp next week. I’m planning on attending. If you’re interested, here are the details: Tuesday, October 24, 20066:00-8:00 PMAGNI’s offices at Boston University 236 Bay State Road, in the basement (Green Line “B,” BU East stop) Girija is an interesting writer and human being. Her story, Song of Giants, was in the issue of SmokeLong … Read More AGNI hosts Girija Tropp reading on 10/24
Xujun Eberlin is one of the most passionate writers I’ve ever met. She works hard and she writes beautifully. You read her work and it’s difficult to believe that English is not her first language, as she puts so many of us whose first language it is to shame with the elegance of her prose. And now, I’m so proud to announce that she … Read More Xujun Eberlin
It’s s gorgeous Saturday morning in my spot of New England. It seems we had a frost last night and this pleases me because now I can plant my spring bulbs. Here’s some good reading for you while you sip your coffee: Issue five of NOÖ journal is live, featuring such fabulous prose as: Eyes, by Kathy Fish Ticket, by Claudia Smith Crystal and … Read More stuff
Started reading the Summer 2006 issue of The Missouri Review last night (by the way, they’ve redesigned their web site–looks great, much friendlier UI). I skipped ahead to the interview with Sven Birkerts and, as usual when I read what he writes/thinks, I was not disappointed. When discussing his experience with depression, Birkerts said something that felt at home for me: But what I … Read More "short-circuiting the loneliness"
When we went to bed last night there was no power. An electrical storm came through and around ten it sounded as though a transformer had gotten zapped. The dog was on the bed; he’s scared of loud noises. At some point in the night, he got off the bed. Then when the storm started up again, I woke to find his snout stuffed … Read More concinnity
Check out Kevin O’Cuinn’s cool project–unfinished stories. Essentially, these are stories started and abandoned–no reason given. Love it. Jennifer Prado has a great interview with Ellen Meister. The new issue of Insolent Rudder is live (love the cover photo!) with work from Randall Brown, Kim Teeple, and a quarterly conversation with Debbie Ann Ice.
For your reading pleasure on a brisk autumn day (brisk if you live in New England–perhaps not so brisk elsewhere): New at the always fascinating Baltimore Interview: Cathedrals of Pornography: The Paintings of Heidi Neff & Excellent interview with the always delightful Jim Tomlinson
I have a sinus headache. Woke up with it in the night after I dreamt I was in a building in which the floors above me and the floors below me collapsed and I didn’t know how to get out, how to get to safety. After I took two Advil, I stayed awake in bed with my eyes closed but my brain on. Can’t … Read More This world was not made for you alone to do with it as you will.
When you read Tom Perrotta’s novel Little Children you enter an unexpectedly gritty suburbia, where the pecking order of housewives (and househusbands) is revealed, where broken-hearted ex-jocks pummel each other on a football field, where you fall in love with someone utterly unexpected (a former feminist lesbian with a beautiful jock–an underwear-sniffing business man with an online purveyor of porn), and where your next … Read More Little Children, by Tom Perrotta
Just got this in email from my pal Jordan: “Creating Space, Letting Go”…an Online Class with Rebecca Lawton & Jordan Rosenfeld October 20th through November 17th, 2006Creating Space: For Writers and Other Artistic Souls (Wavegirl Books, 2007) is part writer’s guide, part playbook and now, a series of online classes! Using a principle pioneered by the authors, the class guides participants through activities and … Read More Creating Space, Letting Go
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