For the first time in 50 years, Harper's Magazine is serializing a novel, according to a recent essay in the NY Times. The essay focuses more on a libel controversy ... Read More

Fall is coming up, bringing with it the usual flurry of short story contests, awards, and fellowships, starting with the PEN USA Emerging Voices fellowship program. Emerging Voices is an ... Read More

Who owns the story and the ideas in a novel? How much protection does copyright give you as a writer, and how much are you allowed to borrow from your ... Read More

Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an article alluding to how some writers are using music to market their books. They gave the example of James Patterson, who ... Read More

There are a few August deadlines still to be aware of: the University of North Texas Press Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, August 29; the New York Public ... Read More

Lots of news from the book world in the past few days: Britain's Man Booker Prize announces its longlist after the longest deliberation period in the prize's history; Gunter Grass ... Read More

Crafting complex, believable characters takes time -- time spent thinking about how your characters look, where they're from, and what motivates them, for instance. The questions on this page help ... Read More

Delaware (August 15) and Wyoming (August 11) writers, this is your month. Both states offer fellowships to their artists. The Delaware Division of the Arts offers awards of $2,000 and ... Read More

Those interested in following African and Caribbean Literature should check out Afromix.org. In the past I've searched for recommendations for authors from various countries and have had a hard time ... Read More

Last night Elizabeth Merrick hosted a reading celebrating her new anthology, "This Is Not Chick Lit" (Random House), featuring writers Jennifer Egan, Carolyn Ferrell, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Dika Lam, Curtis Sittenfeld, ... Read More

Knowing about Hemingway's polydactl cats won't help you as a writer, it's true, but I saw this story in the Guardian and couldn't resist a blog. Apparently the museum in ... Read More

A new month of contests, awards, and fellowships...the Gival Press Short Story Contest, the Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest, grants for Delaware and Wyoming writers, and more.