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If you live in the Milwaukee area and are looking for an interesting part-time job, here’s a unique opportunity: The Pfister, the city’s grand Victorian hotel, is searching for a “narrator” to spend time in the lobby interviewing...
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Did you know that Sept. 24 is National Punctuation Day ? Are your commas and semi-colons and exclamation points all in order? Here are a few tidbits to celebrate the day: • In honor of this auspicious occasion, Jeff Rubin, the founder of National...
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As an editor, you bet I’m in favor of short sentences that get to the point. No reader wants to navigate sentences filled with unnecessary asides that obscure the writer’s meaning. That said, I appreciate writing that takes risks, that aims...
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John Koethe, a former Milwaukee poet laureate and current editorial board member of The Writer , has been honored by the Academy of American Poets for his poetry collection, Ninety-fifth Street . The $25,000 Lenore Marshall Prize is given annually by...
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A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the secret to getting your work critiqued : Critique someone else’s first. That said, giving a good critique is hard work. It requires some time and thought to develop constructive criticism. It’s much...
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This week at The Write r we’ve been working out the details for a new bimonthly column we think our readers will enjoy. The column, to be called First Page, will debut in our February issue, which is due out in early January. In the column, Peter...
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A quick note to all the self-publishers out there: The magazine is looking for fresh articles about self-publishing. Find an angle that hasn’t been done to death and offers take-away benefits to our national audience of writers and you could wind...
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At The Writer we’re starting to put our December issue to bed this week and an essay in there by fiction writer and poet David Harris Ebenbach has managed to press a nerve and bring to mind one of the many pleasures of reading—coming across...
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Well, it’ll soon be time to head back to some serious reading. I recently gave myself a little break because of the weeks of disorganization that are part of moving to a new home, and as a little reward for having finished Geoffrey Ward’s...
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