Philip Lopate headlined the Writer’s Center‘s 32nd birthday celebration last night — complete with cake, champagne and a crowd of…
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Long Week, No Posts… Until Now, Of Course…. On Book World, George Mason University, The N.C. Writers Network, Public/Private & More
What a week. In the midst of many doom-and-gloom predictions, the Washington Post made an announcement this week about dropping Book World…
Continue reading →Matthew Vollmer on Crafting Short Stories
Matthew Vollmer’s short fiction has appeared in a wide range of notable journals, including The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review,…
Continue reading →Tara Laskowski Wins 2009 Kathy Fish Fellowship at SmokeLong Quarterly
Tara Laskowski, featured frequently on this site (if too often only incidentally), was named the Kathy Fish Fellow at SmokeLong…
Continue reading →McIntyre’s Books & N.C. Poetry Society
Top on this week’s list of events in the Triangle area of North Carolina is a reading by poets from…
Continue reading →Dallas Hudgens On Second Novels
In Dallas Hudgens’ first novel, Drive Like Hell, 16-year-old Luke Fulmer gets his license, steals the neighbor’s car, and almost…
Continue reading →“Well, it’s a genre novel, so….”
Over the past few days, I’ve heard some version of the phrase above more than a couple of times from…
Continue reading →A Quaint And Curious Volume
Edgar Allan Poe turns 200 on Monday, January 19, and the bicentennial has prompted a series of celebrations in several…
Continue reading →A Light Week Literarily, But Heavy Elsewhere?
When one North Carolina bookstore manager emailed me her list of January readings and signings, she admitted that the month…
Continue reading →A Poet, In Conversation With Poets
An interest in writing as a craft has driven many of the posts on this site — from my early…
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