5 Tips for Starting a Workshop Group, by Effie Barnes
Starting Your First Workshop Group Outside of ClassEvery writer needs to spend time in revision, and one of the best ways to do that can be in a workshop group. Workshopping might seem a little scary, especially when there isn’t a classroom or a professor to help...
Instant Gratification, by Courtney Baldrige
Four Journals That Will Respond to Your Submission This WeekFew things are more daunting to writers than the blank page, and what’s an empty email inbox if not a blank page? For those of us without much experience in submitting and publishing our own work in journals,...
Three Things We Can Learn from Historical Fiction, by Jenna Engfer
Why do people respond to Historical Fiction so well? Is it because they like to be swept away to another time and place? To learn something new? Or because people enjoy the passion and drama that almost (but not always) seems to trump our contemporary lives today?
Secrets Behind Successful Submissions, by Sandra Youngs
So you’re looking to submit your work for the first time ever, but keep finding reasons to put it off. I get it. I’m in that same boat right now. A cover letter won’t take much time to draft but you have other things to do, or maybe you have so many usernames and...
Writing for the Web, by Belle Allan
It can be frightening to publish online, and that’s totally understandable. Not only are you trying to write your best, you’re also putting yourself out there on the web—a very scary and very public place. You’ve probably picked up some personal preferences and opinions, but what do they actually mean? And how can you begin to make web content?
The Weird Things Writers Google, by Abby Campbell
As it turns out, writing is all about research. It’s about getting every detail, no matter how small, right. Because someone who perhaps knows more than you about a specific subject (weird, right?) will do one of two things:
A Writer Mines iTunes’ Top 5 Songs for Inspiration, by Blanca Crespin
Remember, any time you are feeling the pressure of a blank page, you can turn to music to guide your writing.
So it’s your first time at AWP: 3 Tips from an Undergraduate Perspective
From one undergrad to another, here are my top three tips for first-time undergraduate AWP attendees.
Embrace the Literary Madness, by Justin Christensen
Experimental events and gatherings throw new life into the literary scene. They show that literature is still a living, breathing, dangerous animal, always on the verge of taking a bite out of what we expect to see when we turn the page.
Interview with Andrew Sposeto
From day one, my editorial board took ownership of both the experience and the product and shaped the discourse we had around creating this journal in some weird, conglomerate mold reflective of a group of very unique voices.
BONE MAP by Sara Eliza Johnson, Reviewed by Dan Schauer
Johnson accomplishes the surreal journey through these pages with language that tears through the skin and settles into the marrow. Her images and syntax crawl and inhabit the reader’s body.
SPLIT by Swati Avasthi, Reviewed by Charles DuBois
Avasthi takes the reader to the heart of the question and explores what it’s like to lose someone close; not just the pain that comes from the void they left behind, but also the additional weight of attention, pity and advice that bombards the survivor.
