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August 15, 2013

Reflections on Sewanee

It’s been 10 days now since the end of the 2013 Sewanee Writers’ Conference, time enough for a little reflection on the experience. It…
August 14, 2013

Online Creative Writing Classes

As much as I love face-to-face fiction workshops and critique groups, sometimes they’re just not feasible. Either you live too far away from other…
August 13, 2013

New Book from Ashland Creek Press: Everyday Book Marketing

I’m planning to read and comment on this book in the near future (the publisher sent me a copy for review), but I wanted…
August 12, 2013

Submit to my new anthology: Everywhere Stories

I have been very pleased by the reaction to my call for submissions to the anthology Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, which will…
August 5, 2013

Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet

Submissions are now open for Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction for a Small Planet, an anthology to be published in Fall 2014 by Press 53….
August 5, 2013

Sewanee Writers’ Conference: Books

I got back from Sewanee last night and am trying to get settled in at home before my next jaunt this weekend. I’ve got…
August 3, 2013

Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2013–the end is near

On Wednesday morning we began with another staff reading. We heard from Nick McRae, Emilia Phillips, and Chris Poole. After that, three fellows read:…
August 1, 2013

Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2013–beginning to wind down

We only have a couple of days left to this year’s edition of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, so let me get caught up in…
July 22, 2013

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…
July 21, 2013

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…