New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship deadlines are coming up October 3. Fiction writers may submit 20 pages of prose by midnight of that day. Novels, experimental forms, short ... Read More

Looking to tighten up your prose? While overwriting is a common mistake of beginning writers, even old hands can fall into bad habits where adverbs and adjectives are concerned. This ... Read More

Amber Communications, a publisher of African American literature, has also organized a book relief drive, to distribute books to hurricane victims now housed in the Astrodome: "In the case of ... Read More

Though its way too early for literary journals to respond to the crisis in print, I found two that were resonding online: Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse, out of Baton Rouge, ... Read More

'Tis the season for contests and awards. In fact, there are so many out there right now that I've begun designing pages to help you keep track of contest details, ... Read More

Poets and Writers Magazine sent out an email yesterday providing information on ways that writers might particularly wish to help hurricane victims. Though they say the best way to help ... Read More

The annual independent press issue of Poets and Writers Magazine is on the stands now with three articles on independent publishers that continue to find new strategies to make it ... Read More

Marlys West, author of the book of poetry, Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr, (University of Akron Press), recently discussed her experiences switching from poetry to prose. For poets, who often ... Read More

The end of summer is a good time to establish new habits -- almost as good as New Year's Day, for that matter. Take advantage of the cooler weather to ... Read More

Crab Orchard Review, a well-respected journal, is accepting submissions for its Summer/Fall 2006 issue from now until November 30, 2005. The theme for this issue is "Defining Family" -- that ... Read More

Thanks to the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act), we consumers can now obtain a free annual credit report once from each of three nationwide consumer credit reporting ... Read More