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One of the neat parts of helping to edit & run The Writer has been developing a stable of reliable contributors around the continent who can land interviews with leading authors working in a variety of places and genres. One of our newer go-to interviewers...
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By now, most of you have heard about the sad demise of Borders bookstores. If you’re one of the many readers who regularly bought your copy of The Writer at a Borders, we don't want to lose you. Our circulation department has put together a...
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As a Wisconsin-based magazine, The Writer is always pleased to see local people do well. In this case, we’re placed in the odd situation of praising a homegrown product for creating some truly hideous writing. As reported in our hometown paper,...
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Budget cuts are hitting cities north and south of the U.S.-Canada border, and often “less essential” services such as libraries feel the pain. In Toronto , the mayor is backing a city-hired consultant’s plan to “rationalize the...
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Do I have weird book habits? I’ve always been interested in the different approaches people take to the everyday things we do or eat. I often wonder if I’m the only one doing or eating something in a particular way. (We’ll have to save...
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Founded in 1973 by Barnaby and Mary Conrad, then owned and directed by Marcia Meier from 2004 to 2009, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference enjoys a reputation as one of the best in the West. After a two-year hiatus, it was back in full swing this summer...
Filed under: Marla Miller, Ernie Witham, Barney Brantingham, Susan MIles Gulbransen, Gayle Carline, Aaron Mason, Michael Larsen, Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Samantha Hoffman, Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jane Heller, Russell Bishop
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This week The Writer staff is finishing its selection of the 25 finalists in our current short-story competition. We’ll be sending them along shortly to our “finals” judge, novelist Michelle Wildgen, who is also executive editor at the...
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Today we’re debuting a new monthly column on WriterMag.com. The Fiction Workshop will delve into issues of craft, and we’re happy to announce that David Galef ( at left ), the director of the creative-writing program at Montclair State University...
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We’re excited to introduce a new subscriber benefit on WriterMag.com: our weekly writing prompt . Beginning today—and each Friday—you’ll find a new writing exercise from Heather Wright ( at left ), a freelance writer, teacher and...
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I finally broke down and bought a Nook Color e-reader. Not because I needed it, but because I was getting tired of feeling left out. I wanted to know what everybody has been talking about. Plus, when Kalmbach Publishing made The Writer available on the...
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Last night I went to my local independent bookstore, Boswell Book Company, to hear Ann Patchett read from her latest novel, State of Wonder, and eager readers packed the event space. I happened to be among the audience members who were standing, and I...
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Sometimes the basic premise of a novel (let alone the title) seems irresistible, before you’ve even read a word of the story. That was my reaction this week when some publicity came in on Eric D. Goodman's debut novel in stories, Tracks , releasing...
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Summer means beach reads and blockbuster movies. Hollywood adapts many books for film, of course. So far this year, we could have headed to the theater to catch Jane Eyre, Something Borrowed, Water for Elephants and Everything Must Go (based on Raymond...
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Following up on my June 1 st blog, here’s some more word play from that list that’s floating around in cyberspace. Seems like somebody ought to get credit for this bit of cleverness, but I’m told the author is unknown. (And thanks again...
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Recently, one of my book-club friends won an author phone chat with Jennifer Egan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad . Though our group has been meeting for several years, we hadn’t hosted an author—in person...
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