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> Yiyun Li recently appeared on KQED’s Writers’ Block program to read the title story from her new collection. The audio is embedded below…

> Check out the 2011 Press 53 Open Awards and, more importantly, check out the incredible lineup of judges: Chris Offut judging the short…

> I wrote the syllabus for my composition class in early August. Because of the way holidays and the school’s fall break fell, I…

> Check out the new issue of r.kv.r.y now under the leadership of Mary Akers.

>If you write 750 words every day for a year, you’ll have written . . . [stops to calculate] . . . 273,750 words,…

> The New Yorker’s Book Club is considering Jonathan Dee’s The Privileges this month. (Dee was my thesis advisor in my MFA program.) I’ve…

> It’s time–or, ALMOST time–for The Micro Award. The Micro Award is given for the best flash fiction (under 1000 words) published in the…

> Anyone who reads literary blogs like this one has probably heard about the situation at the Virginia Quarterly Review. No need to go…

>Maybe because I’ve been thinking about “covers” for Prime Number Magazine, which is an online magazine and so doesn’t really have covers, or maybe…

> I came across this useful site (for poets) when I noticed that Prime Number Magazine had a visitor who arrived from there: Poetry…