Unlearning to Write
slate.com – Friday September 11, 2015
The first thing you learn when you set out to teach writing is that you will never teach anyone to write well. It's a cruel joke universities play on humanities grad students. As you're preparing to step into a classroom, they assign you an impossible task, one they cloak with a label like "Introduction to Rhetoric" or "Expository Composition." Here are 20 undergraduates, they say. Show them how to make their prose sing. Staring your new charges down, you begin to speak. Your voice cracks. They see the fear in your eyes.
New Magazine Listing
firstwriter.com – Thursday September 10, 2015
Publishes Adventure; Fantasy; Historical; Horror; Religious; Science; Sci-Fi; Short Stories.
How Mindfulness Can Transform Your Writing Life
huffingtonpost.com – Thursday September 10, 2015
It could be said that writing starts when the ballpoint hits the surface of paper, or when fingers tap the square-shaped keys of a keyboard, but I like to think that writing begins somewhere else.
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Tuesday September 8, 2015
Specialises in nonfiction, but also has a small commercial fiction and children's list.
What we learned about... non-fiction writing
theguardian.com – Tuesday September 8, 2015
Inspiring advice from author and philosopher Julian Baggini on how to kickstart the writing process - and keep focused on your goals.
A manifesto for self-publishing authors
thebookseller.com – Monday September 7, 2015
I hereby declare: That I will not renege on the best publishing opportunities for authors ever and I will not allow the publishing industry to renege on its responsibilities to writers and readers...
Bill Clegg on Novel Writing, Agenting, and Obsessing Over Sufjan Stevens
vogue.com – Saturday September 5, 2015
Those who have watched Bill Clegg's career from afar might believe he has nine lives. Clegg is first and foremost a literary agent, and, as a recent Vanity Fair profile asserts, one of the biggest in the industry. He's also a best-selling memoirist...
New Publisher Listing
firstwriter.com – Friday September 4, 2015
University press with a particular strength in literary publishing, including poetry, short fiction, and translation, as well as nonfiction.
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Thursday September 3, 2015
Welcomes submissions for fiction and nonfiction for adults, young adults, teens, and children 9+.
New Magazine Listing
firstwriter.com – Thursday September 3, 2015
Quarterly online literary journal. Submit 1-3 poems, or fiction or creative nonfiction up to 5,000 words.
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