Memphis Magazine 2006 Fiction Contest
Thursday July 27, 2006
Writers in the Memphis area will want to check out Memphis Magazine's annual writing contest. The winning story will earn a $1,000 grand prize and publication in a future issue. ... Read More
Glimmer Train 2006 Very Short Story Contest
Tuesday July 25, 2006
The deadline for Glimmer Train's Very Short Story Contest is coming soon. Submit online by July 31st: 1st place wins $1,200, 2nd/ 3rd-place: $500/$300, respectively.
Shakespeare's First Folio Sells for $5.2 Million
Wednesday July 19, 2006
Last Thursday, a copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, one of about 40 known to exist, was sold by Sotheby's in London to an anonymous London book dealer. ... Read More
Writer Mickey Spillane Dies at 88
Tuesday July 18, 2006
Bestselling author Mickey Spillane died of cancer yesterday. Born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Spillane's books would end up grossing an estimated 200 million dollars worldwide. The Guardian reported ... Read More
Turning Daydreaming into a Career
Monday July 10, 2006
Margaret Murphy, author of the Inspector Rickman books, talks about how she came to writing, and to crime writing in particular. She didn't begin writing until the age of thirty, ... Read More
On the Media on Books
Wednesday July 5, 2006
Two segments on NPR's "On the Media" this weekend caught my attention as being highly pertinent to the future of books and writing. One focused on changing trends in the ... Read More
Pullman's Novel to Be Made into Film
Monday July 3, 2006
Fans of the Philip Pullman trilogy, His Dark Materials, will be interested to know that New Line, the film company behind Lord of the Rings, gave the go-ahead yesterday to ... Read More
Interview with Ferlinghetti
Sunday July 2, 2006
Yesterday the Guardian, lately my favorite source of literary news, ran an article by Nicholas Wroe based on an interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the beat poet and co-founder of San ... Read More
The Guardian on Zadie Smith and the Campus Novel
Saturday July 1, 2006
Anyone in the process of writing a novel set in academia will want to check out John Mullan's Guardian review of Zadie Smith's new book, "On Beauty." In it, Mullan ... Read More
Harper Lee Writes to Oprah
Saturday July 1, 2006
Breaking a forty-year silence, in which she has published only one book review, Harper Lee wrote a letter for a summer reading issue of Oprah's magazine, O. Describing how she ... Read More