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January 17, 2015

Digging Deep: A Fiction Workshop

Beginning Tuesday, January 20, I’m teaching an 8-week fiction workshop at WriterHouse in Charlottesville that I call Digging Deep. My thinking is that writers–if…
January 16, 2015

Bridgewater International Poetry Festival — happening now!

Poetry fan? Head on over to Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia (about a half hour north of Staunton, VA, where I live) where the…
January 11, 2015

Late Last Night Books: Interview with Me

Sally Whitney, author of the forthcoming novel Surface and Shadow, interviews me at the great blogzine, Late Last Night Books. Interview with Clifford Garstang
January 10, 2015

Used Book Discovery: A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

We have a couple of used book stores in my town, in addition to the stores that sell new books and the shops that…
January 5, 2015

2015 Reading: Creative Nonfiction, Issue 53, Fall 2014

My subscription to Creative Nonfiction is new and this is the first issue I’ve read. I read essays from time to time, of course,…
January 1, 2015

The New Yorker: “The Ways” by Colin Barrett

January 5, 2015: “The Ways” by Colin Barrett Here’s what I didn’t like about this story: (1) Little sense of place. Because Pell has…
December 25, 2014

Goodreads Book Giveaway!

Goodreads Book Giveaway Prime Number Magazine Editors’ Selections Vol. 4 by Clifford Garstang Giveaway ends January 24, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads….
December 24, 2014

Happy Holidays!

Merry Whatever! I grew up in a home that celebrated Christmas, at least in the commercial sense of the holiday. Although my mother displayed…
November 13, 2014

2015 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Fiction

[Note: the 2016 Rankings are here.] Below is the 2015 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines for FICTION. For information about my annual magazine…
November 13, 2014

2015 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines

It is time for the much-anticipated updating of my literary magazine rankings. It is my hope that you will find the rankings to be…