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January 30, 2015

Artist in Residence — at HOME

I’ve declared that February is “Leave me alone I’m writing a novel” month. In other words, for the 4 weeks of February, I’m going…
January 20, 2015

New Issue of Prime Number Magazine: No. 67

We have just published Issue 67 of Prime Number Magazine. Check it out! Fiction by Nick Ostdick and Michael Overa, Nonfiction by James Alan…
January 19, 2015

Prime Number Magazine Awards — 2015

Prime Number Magazine, of which I am the editor, is now accepting entries for the 2nd Annual Prime Number Magazine Awards. We have made…
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….