Volunteer Nathan shares the pros and cons of withdraw technology for writers. Back when snail mail was the only medium for submitting work to publishers aside from knocking on their office door, writers had to be finished with their work…
Author Marsheila Rockwell blogs about writing tie-in fiction. You’ve seen them in the bookstores and supermarkets. Movie novelizations, or books based on your favorite TV show (or, maybe, if you’re of a geekier bent, based on your favorite game). You…
Editor and writer Philip Clark as well as Professors Zachary Benavidez, Joanna Howard, and Shweta Sen will be reading selections from Persistent Voices: An Anthology of Poets Lost to AIDS. Afterward, the audience and participants will be invited to write reactions…
Volunteer Holly interviews author Theodore Carter. The moment I heard the title The Life Story of a Chilean Sea Blob and Other Matters of Importance I was eager to read the book of short stories written by the Washington, D.C.-based…
Volunteer Karolina examines her writer crush on David Sedaris. Okay, it’s official. I think I have developed a full blown writer-crush. After seeing David Sedaris read at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland, I was completely star struck. And after he signed…
Intern Cris blogs about the length of short stories. As I was sampling pieces of writing from various short stories on the internet the other day, I was impressed. They were short, but it was amazing how much the authors…
Guest blogger Joanie DiMartino writes about her NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to her blog from April 2012. So “The Bed Bug Diaries” manuscript continues, line by line, word by word, syllable by syllable, forming into its…
Guest blogger Jacques Rancourt writes about his NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to his blog from April 2012. The best part of the poem-a-day challenge is by the end having a large stack of new work, a…
Guest blogger Marla Deschenes writes about her NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to her blog from April 2012. My poems that were written for NaPoWriMo mock me from a folder on my computer’s desktop where they have…
Guest blogger Uche Ogbuji writes about some longer-term results of his NaPoWriMo experience. Here’s a link to his blog from April 2012. Though I only got up to about twenty new poems in April, that counts as extremely productive for…