Register for Split This Rock Poetry Festival

The Split This Rock Poetry Festival is fast approaching. The dates this year are March 27-30. Check out the great lineup for this year’s…

Ain’t Technology Amazing?

I took some time off today to head “over the mountain” (which is what we in the Central Shenandoah Valley say when we’re going…

Writing Goals for 2014

I’ve seen a lot of my writer friends post their writing goals on Facebook, and I think that’s a good practice, so instead of…

On the Air

I just did my first radio interview. I’ve done podcasts and blog-talk internet “radio” before, but this was the first time in a radio…

Visiting Writer at Randolph College

I am in the middle of a four-week stay as the Visiting Writer at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. It’s been a blast so…

New approach for me: The Three Act Structure

I’m not suggesting that the Three Act Structure is new to story writing–it’s been around a long time. It’s just new that I’m thinking…

2014 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Poetry

Note: the 2015 Rankings for Poetry are now available. Go here. The 2014 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines for Poetry is set forth…

2014 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Fiction

Note: the 2015 Ranking for Fiction is now available. Go here. It is time once again to present the annual Perpetual Folly Pushcart Prize…

The Library of Virginia Awards 2013

The culmination of this year’s Virginia Literary Festival in Richmond was the presentation of The Library of Virginia Awards. I drove down on Friday…

Nobel Prize Goes to Alice Munro

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to “a master of the contemporary short story,” Alice Munro. That’s pretty exciting news, mainly because short…