iStock Celebrating its 18 th year, the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference is back live – and virtually – this year – Oct. 28 & 29. Join us for engaging conversations about reporting, writing, and editing with the nation’s best storytellers. Our opening night reception is hosted by UNT Dallas’ College of Law in the historic […]
iStock.com First there was Nathalie, an English language learner who whispered that she’d never done well in English, never liked it, but this course was different . And her writing was getting better. Then there was Nseandra, who avoided the news because it was depressing and paralyzing. Yet Nseandra became one of my strongest reporters, […]
BALTIMORE — What better time than October for a writing contest for work inspired by Edgar Allan Poe? Poe Baltimore and the Baltimore National Heritage Area are hosting the Second Annual Young Saturday ‘Visiter’ Awards. The free competition is open to all Maryland high school student-creators who are inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s life and […]
When Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya announced her horror novelette, a lesbian ghost story, would be published by Burrow Press, I immediately pre-ordered the special edition hardcover version . Kayla is many things. She’s our Managing Editor, but she’s also our leading Yellowjackets expert, our personal essay champion, a writer of fiction across various literary magazines — […]
Click here to view original web page at UM Student Dives Into Summer of Writing, Surfing, Self-Discovery Izabela Garcia-Arce, a UM graduate student in Environmental Studies, looks out over the Pacific from a volcano near San Quintin, Baja California. (Photo by Justine Holden) UM’s Izabela Garcia-Arce (left) takes a selfie with her friend Dahlia Diaz […]
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 From the Stacks: Puzzles, writing meet in creative bookHave you ever wondered about the process that leads to the end result of what you read? You don’t get to see what comes before: the blank page starting to fill with thoughts, words assembling into sentences, phrases snipped, […]
Click here to view original web page at WHERE I’M WRITING FROM: Waiting for ‘the storm’ that would never comeI’m writing from a place of fear. My debut novel, “Don’t Know Tough,” was released on March 22, and six months later, I still fear the storm that could come of it. Luckily, I’m not alone. […]
Click here to view original web page at Saba Karim Khan on the journey of writing, publishing and finding your songFirst of all, tell us a bit about your journey. When did you realise that you wanted to be a writer? I grew up in Karachi, in a home filled with hand-written letters, books, ghazals […]
Click here to view original web page at Community’s Writers Had To Learn Where They Could Bend The Rules Of TVYou don’t get a show as irreverent and meta as ” Community ” without pushing the boundaries of your writing. Episodes like “Remedial Chaos Theory” and “Biology 101” pushed the limits of what you would […]
