January 2013
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Eric Olsen on Writing
A Good Question Is a Terrible Thing to Waste By Eric Olsen A while back, writer/book reviewer Diane Prokop conducted an extensive interview with Eric and ran a portion of it on her website. She has since decided to take time off from blogging to complete her first novel. Naturally, we applaud her decision and [...]
Books by Martha Nichols’s Bed
Books by Martha Nichols’s Bed Martha Nichols is editor in chief of Talking Writing, an online literary magazine and nonprofit organization. A longtime journalist and freelance writer, she has published in Utne Reader; Brain, Child; Youth Today; Salon; and other journals. A former editor at Harvard Business Review, she’s currently a contributing editor at Women’s Review of Books. She teaches in the [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 6
Slouching Toward Tomorrowland By Doug Borsom This is the sixth in a series of posts leading up to the 2013 AWP Conference at which Eric Olsen will moderate a panel on “What We Wish We’d Known.” Please join us in Boston Saturday, March 9, 1:30-2:45 pm, in room 206 of the Hynes Convention Center. When I was at [...]
Of Labor and Literature
Do Good Fences Make Good Writers? By Jeffrey Abrahams With January’s chill, I am reminded of an experience in Iowa City while a Workshop student that has stuck with me for more than 35 years. Vance Bourjaily, the celebrated novelist and long-time teacher at the Workshop had badly injured his foot while working at his [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 5
On Shark Agents, Writer Candy and Momentum By Jennie Fields This is the fifth in a series of posts leading up to the 2013 AWP Conference at which Eric Olsen will moderate a panel on “What We Wish We’d Known.” Please join us in Boston Saturday, March 9, 1:30-2:45 pm, in room 206 of the Hynes Convention Center, when [...]
Review of WW2BW
Fred Setterberg, rock star author of “true-novel” Lunch Bucket Paradise (see our 5/2012 post) magnanimously and thoroughly reviewed We Wanted to Be Writers for literary blog Talking Writing. Our favorite line—among countless worthies: “By opting for the long view, covering the inceptive motives and misgivings of thirty writers and teachers—the celebrated and the obscure—We Wanted to Be [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 4
The 4 Things You Need To Know Now If You Want to Be a Writer By Don Wallace This is the fourth in a series of posts leading up to the 2013 AWP Conference at which Eric Olsen will moderate a panel on “What We Wish We’d Known.” Please join us in Boston Saturday, March 9, 2013, 1:30-2:45 [...]
Excerpt from Matthew Salesses’ New Novel
Matthew Salesses is fiction editor and a columnist for the Good Men Project. He has written three other books, and placed stories in scores of publications including Glimmer Train, Witness, Pleiades, American Short Fiction, and The Literary Review. His nonfiction has appeared in the Good Men Project, The Rumpus, and KoreAm among others, and he [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 3
Shelter in Place By Joe Haldeman This is the third in a series of posts leading up to the 2013 AWP Conference at which Eric Olsen will moderate a panel on “What We Wish We’d Known.” Please join us in Boston Saturday, March 9, 2013, 1:30-2:45 pm, in room 206 of the Hynes Convention Center, when novelists Jane [...]
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