Month: June 2008

June 30, 2008

>James River Writers Conference

>I attended the James River Writers Conference at the Library of Virginia last year and had fun, plus I learned a fair amount. This…
June 30, 2008

>Springtime on Mars by Susan Woodring

>Springtime on Mars Susan Woodring Press 53 ($14.00) The title of Susan Woodring’s collection of eleven short stories, Springtime on Mars, suggests, if not…
June 29, 2008

>Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iwaela

>This book (Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala) is, I’d say, annoyingly good. It’s not really a novel. It feels like a long…
June 28, 2008

>Closed to Submissions

>Today I received a response to a submission from a respected literary journal. I sent the journal a story in May (the copying cost…
June 28, 2008

>Conference Time

>Writers’ Conferences. I’ve been to a bunch. They’re fun and educational. What more could you want? And with the arrival of summer, conferences are…
June 27, 2008

>Midsummer Day Camp

>If I were a kid, I would so be begging my parents to let me do this. It’s the Midsummer Day Camp of the…
June 27, 2008

>Split This Rock

>The first Split This Rock Poetry Festival was held in DC in March 2008. That was awhile ago, but reports from participants are still…
June 26, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Deep-holes" by Alice Munro

>I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that only diehard Munro-heads are going to love this one. That doesn’t include me, as…
June 26, 2008

>New Issue: Whitefish Review

>I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m told that the Summer 2008 issue of Whitefish Review has just been released. Although the highlights of…
June 26, 2008

>LitMag Wave: The Sun July 2008

>I don’t always find enough to say about The Sun to comment on new issues, but the July 2008 issue has a two short…