This summer, I have been awash in the fiction world. At least, as awash as I ever get, which is probably a bit more like a Wet Nap dabbed lightly over my brow. In June, I attended Writer Camp in Indiana once more. Last year’s was so magical that I couldn’t resist applying, especially […]
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Also tagged "Lower Midnight", "Where She Went", Dan Chaon, flash fiction, Jean Thompson, Lynda Barry, Paper Darts, Per Contra, Roxane Gay, Submissions, Where She Was, Writers conference
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This one’s for the ladies! We’ve already covered how over half of all BASS stories came from the same 12 sources from 2005 through 2010, so let’s move to my pet peeve about the literary community: the potential for bias against writers who are women. I posted this graph in a previous entry, but since […]
Filed in Awards and Stuff Like That
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Also tagged Denis LeHane, Edward P. Jones, gender bias, Glimmer Train, Houghton Mifflin, Joyce Carol Oates, Matt Bell, Michael Chabon, Ploughshares, Susan Gibb, TC Boyle, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Sun, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Women Writers, Zoetrope
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This post from Max Barry is too good to not share. It starts like this: This has been a great year for male writers, with women shunted aside for major prizes and all-new hand-wringing about why it is so. Because, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but male writers get taken more seriously. Also, stories […]
This is Part One of a series analyzing the Best American Short Stories anthologies from 2005-2010. For part two, read “The top five best BASS markets for women writers (and five not-so-great)” I’m one of those creepy writers who are less right brained and more perfectly balanced brained. It’s possible that I have a […]
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Also tagged A Public Space, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Antioch Review, Artifice, Best American Short Stories Anthology, Conjunctions, Female writers, Five Points, Glimmer Train, Granta, Harper-Collins, Harper's Magazine, Heidi Pitlor, Hobart, HTML Giant, McSweeney's, Missouri Review, Narrative Magazine, New England Review, Ninth Letter, One Story, Oxford American, Ploughshares, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, Submissions, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Sun, Tin House, Word Riot, Zoetrope
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Wednesday, September 17, 2003
So I’ve started my graduate writing workshop in Oshkosh. What I hadn’t realized was that it is a combined undergraduate/graduate class. Actually, there are only two graduate students in the class, including myself. The rest are all undergrads taking this as an Intro course. I suppose that it makes me a bit of a snob, […]