Staff Blog
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Entertainment Weekly has a short piece on John Edgar Wideman’s upcoming story collection, Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind , which is being self-published and sold on Lulu . This is notable, of course, because Wideman is a long-established...
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Yesterday, an article on PublishersWeekly.com announced that Barnes & Noble is planning to test a new sales idea: they're going to sell the print version of a book with the option to purchase an e-book version of it at a discount. But I couldn't...
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The other day I was working on the first round of edits for Marilyn Taylor ’s next Poet to Poet column. She begins the piece by saying that she often receives clueless remarks from people she meets once they find out she writes poetry. For example...
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I’ll add one more mention to the recent burst of coverage about esteemed film critic Roger Ebert , whom my colleague Jeff Reich blogged about on Feb. 16. (Ebert, who has lost his lower jaw, his speech, and his ability to eat and smell to thyroid...
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I’m happy to announce that The Write r will have a presence at this year’s BookExpo , the publishing industry’s biggest event, May 24-27 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. We’re sharing an exhibit booth on the main floor...
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We’re in the middle of wrapping up the May issue; we’re copy-fitting articles and making last-minute changes. As I reread contributing editor Sarah Anne Johnson’s interview with Aleksandar Hemon, author of three story collections and...
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When I was a reporter and editor at the late Cleveland Press around 1980 or so, some colleagues and I used to joke about the bone-dry writing style at “the other paper” in town, The Plain Dealer. Our standing claim was that all copy submitted...
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Have you entered WriterMag.com’s sweepstakes yet? All you need to do is fill out the official entry form on the Web site or print off the entry form and mail it in to us by the deadline. Thanks to Gotham Writers' Workshop and Write Brothers...
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Recently PBS aired a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma (starring Romola Garai, right ), and I was reminded that Austen once described her title character as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” Of course, she underestimated...
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Last week The Writer held its annual day-long retreat, and I’d like to squelch any rumors right now that the coddled staff was flown to an idyllic spot overlooking the Pacific, or a cozy meeting room with a roaring fire and wood-beamed ceiling in...
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Anyone who loves film has likely read or watched the reviews of critic Roger Ebert , either in the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times or on television. And if you know of Roger Ebert, then you also know of his struggles with cancer over the past few years—including...
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In all the hub-bub of our upgrades to WriterMag.com and the start of our annual short-story competition, it’s easy to forget that we’re in the middle of the Sylvia K. Burack Scholarship competition . The competition, which awards $500 for...
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I’m reading Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which is about four generations of a family living in York, England. The hilarious Ruby Lennox starts off each chapter telling a story about her own life, while the second half of...
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I think a variety of freelance writers, novices and veterans alike, will enjoy an article by George Gurtner that we have coming up in our May issue (due out in early April). George is a veteran magazine columnist in New Orleans who has a real talent for...
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Today’s a snow day—at least, it’s snowing outside our offices in the Milwaukee suburbs. They’re forecasting up to 14 inches here, so some of us wondered if the company would close for a true “snow day”—but not...
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