Chances are you’ve already heard about Dan Wickett’s first annual Emerging Writers Network Short Fiction Contest, but if you haven’t, here are the details: Entry Fee: $10 Deadline: All stories must be physically mailed and arrive with a postmark of August 15, 2006 or earlier (and feel free to start sending as early as today) Length: Stories must be between 3000 and 8000 words in length Judge: Charles D’Ambrosio See EWN for more details.
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Writing While Wasted
Not that I’d ever do it–I need every brain cell I can muster to pump out a paragraph–but I happily stumbled upon this blog written by a writer’s wife. It’s called A Glass a Day, and I don’t know anything about the author except for the fact that she lives in New York, is named Danielle, and has this to say about how she came to wine: I used to live in Belgium. My second host family owned a farmhouse from the 1600′s with a true wine cellar. My host father taught me almost everything I know about wine....
Path, Crooked Path, by John Balaban
Copper Canyon Press has just released John Balaban’s new book of poetry, Path, Crooked Path, which received a starred review from Booklist. Not for Balaban tempests in the teapot of personal reflection. No, he is a roaming bard in a besieged world. His wry, trenchant lyrics embody the cadence of a solitary thinker walking a country road while taking measure of the axis between light and dark, life and death. Balaban considers the lonely landscapes of America’s vast heartland and heartless borderland, and the absurdity, tragedy, and beauty of places redolent and riven, such as Athens, Romania, Miami, and...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
