I love this poem about our history.
Krotoa-Eva’s suite – a cape jazz poem in three movements, by Toni Stuart
I love this poem about our history.
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Roxane Gay Is the New Judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
photo by Jay Grabiec
Acclaimed writer, editor, professor and commentator Roxane Gay has been chosen as the new judge for the University of Georgia Press’s Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Gay follows Lee K. Abbott and Nancy Zafris as the latest distinguished writer to judge the Flannery O’Connor Award competitions.
Gay’s writing appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of My Body.
Gay is also the author of World…
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How to Recover From Painful Negative Feedback in 5 Steps
Great advice
by Daniella Levy
There it is.
That feedback you’ve been so terrified to receive. The one that makes all your self-doubt demons shriek: “YOU SEE?! WE TOLD YOU SO!!!”
You know which one I’m talking about.
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Reading Lydia Davis
I'm reading Lydia Davis’ short story collection. She certainly plays with form, something I can relate to because my stories tend to jump in time and space from one paragraph to the next. Which proved to be a problem because I couldn’t sell it to popular magazines. She is highly experimental. One story is just … Continue reading Reading Lydia Davis
Growing as a writer
The authors and texts that have influenced my development as a writer the most are Leo Tolstoy, Lydia Davis, Philip Stevick, Flannery O’Connor, Maxine Chernoff, and the two stories Boys by Rick Moody and Girl by Jamaica Kinkaid. Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, one of the first books I read, set me on a journey into the … Continue reading Growing as a writer
Free on Smashwords
My book is currently free on Smashwords. Click here to get a copy. Hi, I haven't disappeared or anything but I've been busy. In January I started working on a PhD at the University of the Western Cape. It's the hardest thing I've ever done. At last I have progressed enough to have an overview of … Continue reading Free on Smashwords
How Your Emotional State Can Affect Your Editing
by Andrea Lundgren
I’ve been thinking about how we humans clean things up. Sometimes, we do it begrudgingly, sometimes compulsively. How we feel (and how close we are to a deadline) usually determines whether our efforts are frantic or methodical. When rushed or pressured, we can get rid of stuff we really should’ve kept, and I think this applies to editing, too.
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Three Types of Writers Have Trouble Finishing Things. Which One Are You?
by Lauren Sapala
I don’t know if it’s that time of year or what, but I’ve been getting a lot of emails from writers lately about finishing things. This is also a topic that comes up frequently in my coaching sessions with writers. Lots and lots of writers out there are terrified that they will never be successful—or even halfway decent—because they have a lot of trouble finishing things.
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New me
I started working on a PhD this year and it has been a revelation. My observation thus far is: a PhD makes you realize that you don’t know what you’re doing. It makes you realize that you are not as clever as you thought you were. So the new humble me is ferreting out information … Continue reading New me
How to Hold a Writers’ Retreat
by ARHuelsenbeck
Have you ever found yourself stranded in Creative Badlands? You know, that parched place where you are just so dry that nothing trickles from your pen? Or what you write is so uninspired that it puts you to sleep?
Sometimes it helps to get away. A writers’ retreat could be just the boost you needed to refresh your writing.
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Cornelia Smith Fick 