Click here to view original web page at Maine writers turn page on new festival “Big Nate” creator Lincoln Peirce will be one of about 50 authors participating in the events of Maine Lit Fest, scheduled for Friday through Oct. 8. Avid readers will tell you it’s always a good time for a book festival. […]
Click here to view original web page at Yiyun Li on Writing Advice (the Good, the Bad) and the Books She Always Returns To Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction— Must I Go, Where Reasons End , Kinder Than Solitude , A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants , and […]
Click here to view original web page at Visiting writer helps craft a new perspective Poet Savannah Sipple reads her favorite poems for the audience. App State hosted author Savannah Sipple Thursday during the Visiting Writers Series to read excerpts from her poetry book “WWJD and Other Poems,” detailing her experience growing up queer in […]
Click here to view original web page at Student wins Phi Beta Kappa award for undergraduate writing Junior Safyque xRichardson, a double major in creative writing and psychology, won the 2022 John D. Wilson Prize for her essay “Reduction to the Black Body: Brutality in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Photo by […]
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Click here to view original web page at Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories “When more isn’t there, or the story is hidden, my imagination fills in the blanks left by small snippets of family history.” I grew up in a family reluctant to tell stories. Like about Elizabeth, […]
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Click here to view original web page at Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing “You cannot let worry win.” The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . If you hang around the writing racket long enough, you will see every sort of writing […]
Click here to view original web page at Travel writing is still dominated by male voices. Alice got to have an adventure, so why can’t we all? Of all genres, travel writing has remained predominantly male – and aimed at men Women are underrepresented in travel writing (Photo: Westend61/Kike Arnaiz/Getty) I always longed for adventure, […]
Click here to view original web page at When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ BlockBetween subway stops on the F train, on my way to see a psychopharmacologist for a headache I’d had for six months, I received another rejection from another agent for yet another draft of my book proposal. […]
