P amela Erens’s second novel, The Virgins, was published by Tin House Books in August 2013. It was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and was named a Best Book of 2013 by The New Yorker, The New Republic, Library Journal and Salon. The novel was a finalist for the John Gardner Book Award for the best book of fiction [...]
Richard Peabody is author of the recent collection Blue Suburban Skies, published by the Mint Hill Books imprint of Main Street Rag, and the forthcoming The Richard Peabody Reader, edited by Lucinda Ebersole and published by Alan Squire Publications with SFWP. He's the founder and current editor of Gargoyle Magazine and editor (or co-editor) of twenty-two [...]
Claudia Smith's stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of the short-short collections The Sky Is A Well (reprinted in Rose Metal Press's A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women, and Put Your Head In My Lap (Future Tense Books), and most recently Quarry Light (Magic Helicopter Press). Bonnie ZoBell: [...]
We San Diegans are proud to list T. Greenwood as one of our best fiction writers. She's the author of eight novels, all of which are great, but her latest, Bodies of Water, is exquisite. She's an active member of our writing community, teaches, and it's always fun to run into her at readings. Tammy [...]
Today I'm taking part in the #MyWritingProcessTour. It's so interesting and instructive to see how other writers go about their work. I was nominated by my friend, Susan Tepper, writer extraordinaire. Be sure to get a copy of Susan's latest book, The Merrill Diaries, beautifully written and a thought-provoking romp through the U.S. and parts [...]
Guidelines The AWP HEAT Flash Contest is run in conjunction with AWP HEAT, a reading on Friday, March 8, at Dillon's Restaurant & Bar, Boston, 955 Boylston Street, one block from Hynes Convention Center. Free. 2:30 – 6:30 p.m. Winners of contest announced at 4:00 p.m. at AWP HEAT. Respond to this prompt: “Fire” Anyone may [...]
By Bonnie ZoBell Why isn't "Rusty Barnes" a household name? Is it because he doesn't schmooze the right people or because he isn't semi-nude in his author's photo? Or maybe it's because he doesn't write about the beautiful people. The characters in Rusty Barnes' outrageously good story collection Mostly Redneck (Sunnyoutside Press) wouldn't be caught dead [...]
By Bonnie ZoBell Tara Laskowski is interviewed by, ahem, James Bond for The Next Big Thing about her brilliant new book Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons. See interview here. See what James Bond is looking like these days here.
I've finally come to the end of my two-week stay at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. This picture will give you an idea of how remote my cabin was, though it's a little misleading. The city of Temecula is only about a fifteen-minute drive away. Also, there's another cabin up the hill as well as [...]