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April Calendar
We agree with critic Judith Kitchen, writing in The Georgia Review about Marvin Bell‘s latest book, his 23rd, Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems. She says, “I believe Marvin Bell’s Dead Man poems should close any anthology of the twentieth century and open any anthology of this new century’s work. They change the game.”Catherine Gammon‘s new novel, Sorrow, will be published [...]
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 [...]
On Becoming a Writer
If this isn’t a graduation speech for an MFA program, it should be. Or, no . . . it should be required reading long before wannabe writers get that far. In this post from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Randall Silvis nails the prerequisites with humor and tough truth. Anything you’d add to his 10 [...]
Gary Iorio on Staying in the Writing Game
Gary Iorio has had eleven pieces of writing published in the past year or so. His “latest” appears in the most recent issue of Crack the Spine. Gary confides, “It’s just a little embarrassing to say how excited I am to have my short story ‘Bimbos And Floozies’ finally get published. It was written in [...]
Resolutionary Road
Ah, to be young—and hirsute—again. In this wistful post on his Red Room author’s blog, Eric tackles the seasonal tradition of reinvention and what it may mean for mature writers.
THE BOOK, Reviewed
We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love and Literature at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Eric Olsen and Glenn Schaeffer, Skyhorse Publishing, A Herman Graf Book 2011, 344 pages A Handbook for Young Writers (of All Ages) [...]
China, Censorship, and Rupert’s Invisible Hand
By Eric Olsen @2bwriters Poor Rupert. I just read with no small delight that über-agent Andrew Wylie has accused HarperCollins (a Rupert Murdoch possession) of acting in an “unusually shrill and punitive” way toward authors. Much to my added delight, he managed to connect HarperCollins’ “shrill and punitive” behavior with Rupert Murdoch and the current hacking [...]
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