Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2013–midway report

Some years I have blogged every day from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Not this year, obviously. I’ve been busy. The main reason for that…

Sewanee Writers Conference 2013

It’s that time again–time for the Sewanee Writers Conference. The conference begins tonight, Tuesday, July 23, and runs through Saturday, August 3. When this…

The New Yorker: “Collectors” by Daniel Alarcón

July 29, 2013: “Collectors” by Daniel Alarcón. We learn from the Q&A with Daniel Alarcón that this “story” is excerpted from his forthcoming novel….

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness

Split This Rock Announces Poets for 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival Diverse line-up of prominent citizen-poets to take to DC stages March 27-30, 2014…

The Book Tour–updated

It used to be that publishers would send their authors on national book tours to promote new releases. That still happens with a few…

2013 Reading: Glossolalia by David Jauss

Glossolalia By David Jauss Press 53 (September, 2013)   I first became aware of David Jauss from reading his wonderful essays on the craft…

Prime Number Magazine — Issue 41

The other editors of Prime Number Magazine and I put in a lot of work to produce our journal. We’ve been doing it for…

Blue Ridge Anthology 2013

Blue Ridge Anthology 2013 Published by Cedar Creek Publishing for the Blue Ridge Writers Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club, the Blue Ridge Anthology…

Breaking News . . .

Well, not breaking, exactly, but I was on the news last night. My group, SWAG Writers, held a reading last night at the Shenandoah Valley Art…

The New Yorker: “From a Farther Room” by David Gilbert

July 22, 2013: “From a Farther Room” by David Gilbert What, then, is this creature Robert finds? Robert, while his family is away, is…