I recently received a great piece, "Five Tips to Avoiding Total Disaster as a Novelist from a Poor, Wretched Fool Who Had to Learn the Hard Way," from Kris Saknussemm, ... Read More

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library and society of American history, is now calling for applications for month-long visiting fellowships for historical research by "creative and performing ... Read More

Google Print, Google's plan to digitize thousands of books, continues to spur debate in the publishing and library worlds. Google's original plan was "to make the full text of all ... Read More

Robert Olen Butler will be judging this year's All-Story Contest, which awards prizes of $250-$1,000. Winners and seven honorable mentions will be announced on the website December 1, 2005, and ... Read More

Stephanie Lessing's book, She's Got Issues appeared this summer to great reviews (the New York Post described it as "A lively chick-lit exploration of modern social manners"); I recently had ... Read More

I recently received a notice that Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry, published by the University of Tulsa, is currently accepting submissions of short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction ... Read More

I'm continuing to add reviews of books, both old and new, that might be helpful or inspiring to writers and aspiring writers. This week's review is of a 2001 book ... Read More

Take note all New York State writers considering the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artists' Fellowships for the first time: application seminars are going on now through September ... Read More

Each year Poets & Writers Magazine chooses a poet and a fiction writer from one state and hosts a trip to New York for them to meet with agents, editors, ... Read More

The August 15, 2005, deadline for the Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships is coming soon. The fellowships support individual artists in their work as visual, performing, media, ... Read More