Creative Writing

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Writing
No! Short stories are not Novels. This is how to write a short story.
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Writing short stories is a great way to kick-start your writing career. Why? Simple… because it poses the same set of challenges and questions you’ll …
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Writing
Storytelling Exercise: Character Analysis
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Character Analysis: A Storytelling Exercise. Today’s storytelling exercise is an excerpt from my book, Story Drills: Fiction Writing Exercises, which …
Writing
Glen Workshop 2019
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The Blackness of Art a seminar with Jessica B. Davenport and Biko Mandela Gray Writing and Reading the Ties that Bind a poetry workshop with Natasha …
Writing
Ten Questions for Oyinkan Braithwaite
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This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Oyinkan Braithwaite, whose debut novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer, is out today from Doubleday. A …
Writing
GrubStreet Creative Writing Center
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The Editorial Internship is a unique opportunity to intern with GrubStreet in Boston from anywhere in the world! During a fully remote six-month-long …
Literary Prizes
Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist, Esi Edugyan Wins Giller Prize, and More
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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that …
Writing
No Slush Piles: Notes From A Literary Journal Editor
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Because I have spent more than thirty years reading literary manuscripts—poems, short stories, essays, and book reviews—in search of ones I’ve wanted …
Stanford University
Upcoming Prose Contest Deadlines
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Planning to get some writing done over the break? There are a number of contests for fiction and nonfiction writers with upcoming deadlines. Narrative …
Sexual Harassment
Díaz to Remain on Pulitzer Board, Georgia Review’s Corey to Retire, and More
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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that …
Kimberly Tate-Louieadded this to Writing
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Why you need to keep writing (and how to focus on what really matters)
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Eight lessons I’ve learned from reading the writing of ‘successful’ writers — and from regularly publishing.What does success mean to you as a …
Ray Macon Writer added this to WRITING CAREERS
Writing
Secret to Write More and More
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I always used to wonder how some people churn out posts after posts and books after books regularly. I wondered how to write more like them. Whenever …
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Writing
7 Ways How To Renew Your Love for Writing Again
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Sometimes the things we were once passionate about losing our interest, like writing. Here are a few ways you can fall in love with writing all over …
France 24
William Goldman
Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman dies
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - William Goldman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," and "All the President's Men," has died, his family announced Friday. His daughter and told
Spanish Language
New creative writing program at HofstraÂ made for Spanish language writers
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Hofstra University is looking to foster the next crop of promising Spanish language writers.
Toran J. Shawadded this to Writing
Copywriting
Why Writing Poetry Makes Me a Better Copywriter
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Structure and variety will unleash your creativityA client needed my help polishing their speech. It was a TED Talk-style presentation for medical …
Writing
The Secret Facts of Fiction: A Profile of Sigrid Nunez
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In the past eleven years, Sigrid Nunez has written five novels, all of which are subtle investigations of how one’s identity is forged in that space …
Writing
Word of the Year, Tommy Orange on Thanksgiving, and More
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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that …
Personality
Universal Concerns
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In a recent New York Times profile by Penelope Green, author Anne Lamott says, “I don’t write stuff I don’t think is universal, if I write about my …
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Self-confidence
Colin Winnette Thinks Writing a Novel Is a Little Like Committing a Murder
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I n our monthly series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process …
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4 Indian authors shortlisted for DSC Prize
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Four Indian authors and two authors of Pakistani origin have made it to the shortlist of the $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018. The …
Black Lives Matter
'In these rooms, change does happen'
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Artist and poet Karen Finley on hope and Trump. …
Writing
Katya Apekina
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• Printable Version • Log in to Send • Log in to Save • Pinterest “When I was working on my novel there were two Bolaño novels that I kept returning to—not …
George Mason
National Book Awards, Stan Lee’s Last Superhero, and More
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StaffDaily NewsWashington Post’s Best Books of 2018; CLMP’s Leppendorf passes the torch to Gannon; Poetry Daily moves to George Mason University; and …
African-American News
Nunez, Acevedo Win 2018 National Book Awards
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The winners of the 2018 National Book Awards were announced at a ceremony tonight in New York City. Sigrid Nunez took home the award in fiction for …
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Writing
7 Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction
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Before he was a big game hunter, before he was a deep-sea fisherman, Ernest Hemingway was a craftsman who would rise very early in the morning and …
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Public Relations
6 vital reasons you should write a horrible first draft
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This article originally ran on PR Daily in September of 2017. Writing flawed copy can be freeing. My library of books about writing expands every year, …
David Tibbettsadded this to Reading And Writing
Folklore
The Folklore Podcast
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About This Show Show Info: Folklore: Beliefs, traditions & culture of the people. Traditional folklore themes from around the world. One episode each …
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Hayes
My Past and Future Assassin: A Profile of Terrance Hayes
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One can make a home wherever the body finds itself at rest. I imagine this to be true always, but especially now, while taking in the large plastic …
John Paul Austriaadded this to Writing Skills
Writing
What is good writing?
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What is a good reading experience? M2, Doc 2Recently I have started to read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment (published 1866, 670 …
Writing
How Deep This Grief: Wrestling With Writing As Therapy
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Three years later, hardly a day goes by when I don’t picture Kelly in that ICU bed, though the image itself is like a jigsaw puzzle with pieces …