You remember in school writing workshops, how some jerk would circle a comma and tell you it was in the wrong place when you knew it wasn’t? Other people would read it and say, “this is really good” and pass it back.
There is no shortage of pro bono work out here for writers and editors. And at some point, we have to say whoa to giving our time and skills away for free. But there are some real rewards to pieces of this work we do gratis
A few of my colleagues and I have begun a project in which we will thoroughly research the options that serious fiction writers have for getting their books to print. What is the future of publishing?
What’s a writing blog without commentary on rejection letters, or rejection “notes” or in some cases, rejection “subscription forms?” Howard Junker, Zyzzyva, does this last one: It’s clever really
Last night I attended Narrative Night in San Francisco, the annual fundraising event for Narrative Magazine, with which I am an assistant editor. Jennifer Egan, Robert Stone, and Kara Levy read from their works.