It’s hard to believe that June is more than half over. Time passes that way, flying so fast you can’t catch it. For the past few weeks I’ve been adjusting back into the schedule of writing and working at home.…
Help save the University of Missouri Press!
On May 24th University of Missouri President Tom Wolfe announced that funding for the 54-year-old university press would be ended almost immediately. This was a devastating decision for the staff of the press, the writers who have been published by…
Notes on publishing (for new writers)
Yesterday I moderated a panel on publishing at the Solstice MFA Creative Writing Program’s winter residency. The panel featured current faculty members Randall Kenan, Venise Berry, David Yoo, Mark Turcotte, and Anne-Marie Oomen. I’ll try to summarize, here, some of…
Meditations on an Editor's Meditations
Recently, I received the latest issue of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction in the mail. Fourth Genre, is one of the premier literary journals that publishes creative nonfiction in the United States. From the start of my MFA studies (which…
Good words from Tayari Jones
I just finished reading a column by author Tayari Jones on the website She Writes. I don’t know Tayari, but these words in her column really hit home for me: “My purpose in sharing this is not to say that…
Into the Vacuum
I just got word that my personal essay “Into the Vacuum” will be published in an upcoming issue of Prime Number. According to their site: “PRIME NUMBER is a new literary magazine featuring distinctive fiction (flash and short stories), poetry,…
Kudos
I thought I’d take a moment to cut-and-paste some information (at the end of this post) from the last newsletter that arrived in my email box from Pine Manor College’s Solstice MFA Program in Creative Writing. I know I mention…