>Writers in Waiting, Waiting on Writers

>There’s a fun story from the August 24 edition of The Washington Post about the waiters at Bread Loaf.

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

Comments

  1. >”We’re wearing aprons, but everybody who’s here — the agents, the editors, the faculty, the fellows, the other contributors — knows that this person who’s waiting on you is going to be a very important writer in four or five years,” …

    Man, I had no idea that Bread Loaf was the key to success. Guess I should have gone when I had the chance.

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