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What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 9
Seeing the Forest By Michelle Huneven This is the ninth in a series of posts leading up to the AWP Conference at which Eric Olsen will moderate a panel on “What We Wish We’d Known” with novelists Jane Smiley, Lucy Silag, Doug Unger and Vu Tran. Please join us in Boston Saturday, March 9, 1:30-2:45 pm, in [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 8
Ten Nuggets of Hard-Won Knowledge By Jeffrey Abrhams This is the eigth in a series of posts leading up to the 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. Oh youth! How [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 7 cont’d
When the Writing Life Finds You, Part B By Geri Lipschultz And I wish I’d known that any writer needs an editor, someone you trust to read your work carefully and give you honest feedback. But I wasn’t thinking about publishing, at first, but just performing writing on the level I wished to perform it. [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 7
When the Writing Life Finds You, Part A By Geri Lipschultz Last year Geri defended her dissertation, won a fiction award from So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Literature and Art, published a handful of blogs and the story in So to Speak; as for this year, she’s crossing her fingers. This is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know? Part 2
The Stars and the Moon By Ross Howell This is the second in a series of posts leading up to the 2013 AWP Conference in Boston at which Eric Olsen will moderate a panel on “What We Wish We’d Known” as young writers just starting our careers. Join us March 9, 1:30-2:45 pm, in room [...]
What Do New Writers REALLY Need to Know?
What We Wish We’d Known By Eric Olsen Please mark your calendars for Saturday, March 9, 2013, 1:30-2:45 pm, in room 206 of the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, when novelists Lucy Silag, Jane Smiley, Vu Tran, and Doug Unger will be discussing “What We Wish We’d Known” at the annual meeting of the Association [...]


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