The National Pen Women have announced the 2014 winners of their Keats Soul Making Literary Awards.

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.

Using Careless Speech for Careful Writing. Peter Elbow’s new book, Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing, was the impetus for this Day One 9 am panel.

Put your manuscript in a drawer. Write your next novel. With experience comes …well, experience. Oh, and wisdom.

The new issue of Gently Read Literature has been released. Another collection of fine books reviewed by fine reviewers, including a review of Terese Svoboda’s Bohemian Girl by Yours Truly.