Soul Making Literary Award Honorable Mentions
The National Pen Women have announced the 2014 winners of their Keats Soul Making Literary Awards.
A Must Read Essay
If you haven’t read this in The Rumpus yet, you must do so now. It is called, “The Eager”. Or, better, listen to the author, Jennifer Palmares Meadows, read it herself.
Memorable moments from AWP ’13 Boston #1
I took this shot at the AWP booth with friends Janna Marlies Maron (writer of Bold is Beautiful, and publisher of Under the Gum Tree) and Peter Grandbois (author of Nahoonkara, winner of the Gold Medal in literary fiction.
Where did I go for the holidays? Into the pages
I don’t know about you, but my downtime looks an awful lot like my uptime. I am very happy to be one of those people who loves her work.
Steve Almond is totally hot.
Steve Almond is a genius when it comes to instructing writers about writing about sex (or not writing about sex). “Remember that the sexiest thing about sex is really desire, which is just a fancy word for not getting laid.”