Lit Quake 2010
October 1-9, San Francisco If you’ve never experienced Lit Quake, you’ve never experienced a true immerse-yourself-in-literati-festival. San Francisco, perhaps the most literary city in the world
Indie Book Awards
All indie book authors and publishers – including small presses, mid-size independent publishers, university presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors are encouraged to enter the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards now.
Tin House Supports the Local Bookstores of Desperate Writers
Just Kidding, of course. Well, sort of… Check this out~Tin House launches Buy a Book, Save a Bookstore: In the spirit of discovering new talent as well as supporting established authors and the bookstores who support them,
Narrative Contest Winners Announced
The winner of Narrative Magazine Spring 2010 Contest is a story that I am happy to say was one of two that I thought were the best in the semi-finals. FIRST PRIZE goes to Scott Tucker’s I Would Be Happy to Leave This Asylum.
Sage Advice from the editors at Glimmer Train
Make every word pull its weight. (Sometimes the right noun can deliver both meaning and tone; the perfect verb may eliminate the need for an adverb.). Don’t skimp on clarity. Every sentence must make sense and work together with the other sentences to make logical paragraphs.