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Places in the Heart? A Conversation with Novelist John Carr Walker About Spearwood, OR (opens the original)
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Next week’s post will be October’s agent list. A preview of September’s is accessible here. Bookish monthly and annual subscriptions are 30% off. Now out! Julia Cohen’s essay collection Freak Lip (Texas A & M University Press) —Before today’s feature, below are three book contests currently accepting submissions: <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/yal
In No Particular Order (opens the original)
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A preview of September’s literary agent list is accessible here. Bookish monthly and annual subscriptions are 30% off.—Fall quarter began this week at both universities I teach for, and although I’ve been teaching since the mid-1990s (with a few years’ break for an office job at the School of the Art Institute), each year I still feel the same combination of suspense and anxious excitement when meeting my new students. Many of the writers in the MFA and
Taking a Leap: A Conversation with Kathleen Rooney--Her New Novel Is MAN OVERBOARD! (opens the original)
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The Hudson Review is open for fiction submissions through November 30; no submission fees. Nonfiction submissions are open Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, and poetry April 1 - June 30. West Branch is open with no fees for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation submissions.CRAFT is open for its annual short fiction contest (final judge Jess Row), flash fiction, short story, and nonfiction submissions. - Sp
Not Just Jumping to Conclusions - Sprinting (opens the original)
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Get your work into the world: Los Angeles Review is open for nonfiction, fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and translation submissions.Santa Monica Review (only paper submissions - SASE must be included) is accepting fiction and nonfiction submissions (USPS has new stamps featuring squirrels 🐿️!) Send to: Santa Monica Review, Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405. T
Coming of Age in Florida: A Conversation with Evan Griffith, Author of the Novel MANATEE SUMMER (opens the original)
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Next fall, join me for a writing retreat in Provence in October 2027—more details available here. Writing prompt: Write a prose piece or a poem about someone surprising a friend or family member with a gift they didn’t know what to do with (or made clear they didn’t want it). ✒️📗—Greetings fellow literary travelers, A few short announcements before today’s feature, an in
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