One of the great things about writers conferences is getting to meet so many talented writers that you might not get to meet otherwise. Especially if you're from a place not exactly considered a literary mecca. Such is the case with Jennifer Murphy, a very gifted writer from Seattle, whom I first met at the [...]
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I met Heather Fowler at the Denver AWP in 2010. The irony is there aren't that many literary writers living in San Diego, and we'd never met before. I was so impressed with her writing and we hit it off so well that I was grateful to quickly become good friends, get to watch her [...]
Roy Kesey is one of our best contemporary writers. His stories and novels are set all over the globe, so we're able to gain insight into how different peoples think, what their values are, and how they live their lives, and the tales themselves are full of original and poetic language, not to mention extraordinary [...]
After years of knowing Bud Smith casually on Facebook, I finally had the pleasure of meeting him in person at last year's AWP, where we participated in a private Hot Pillow AWP reading in someone's hotel room. I was so impressed with what he read from his book Tollbooth that I couldn't wait to get [...]
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: [...]
A wonderful time last night seeing old friends and new. Pictures of Susan Tepper, Richard Peabody, Gloria Mindock, Eric Darton, Anne Elliott, and Richard Hensley.
