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Friday Finds for Writers

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Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to read over the weekend.

  • “Should an M.F.A. trying to make it in her field accept an adjunct teaching job or take a break from academe?” That’s the question a writer asked The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s “Ms. Mentor.” See what the sage counselor advised.
  • Also on the economic front: “Ways to Fund Your Narrative Nonfiction Project.” (I have to admit that sleeping in a rental car doesn’t appeal to me at all, but others may be okay with it.)
  • As Short Story Month draws to a close, Elliott Holt offers a beautiful post on Chekhov’s canonical “The Lady with the Little Dog” (which happens to be one of my favorite stories, too).
  • Wise thoughts from Roxane Gay on promotion and publicity. One of my favorite snippets: “Share links to your new book, interview, essay, story, poem, whatever, once or twice, maybe even three times. Beyond that, you’re probably sharing too much, especially if we’re talking about a compressed time span.” (Also: Roxane was offering free books when she published her post on Tuesday. Maybe some of them are still left.)
  • On a related note: useful checklist of basic book-promotion materials.

    • Have a great weekend, everyone. See you back here on Monday!

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  • “Some people move to New York to realize their literary dreams, but I had to leave.” Geeta Kothari explains why this was so in a beautiful essay for the VQR blog.
  • Judy Blume fans, New York magazine has some treats for you!
  • Among the highlights of my visit to the BIO conference last weekend was a panel on the politics and ethics of book reviewing. Quite a big topic, with so many threads to pursue. One that the panel didn’t have time to address–publishers’ strategic misuse of reviews for blurbing purposes–is at the heart of Ron Charles’s recent commentary. On a related note: Bethanne Patrick’s reflections on “why literary criticism still matters” are also worth a read.
  • Reflections on rejection, whether we’re talking about a McSweeney‘s submission or a tenure-track teaching job, from John Warner.
  • Also on the subject of submissions: Jennifer Niesslein offers “6 Rules of Thumb from an Editor-Turned-Writer” over on Jane Friedman’s blog. (I’ll confess some doubts about rule #2, but I’d have to do some major archival unearthing and analysis to see how many times my own experience may have disproved it.)
  • Just a reminder that you still have time to enter the Short Story Month Quiet Americans giveaway!

    • Have a great weekend, everyone. Yes, Monday’s a holiday here in the U.S., but the blog will be back then nonetheless!

    Friday Finds for Writers

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    Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to read over the weekend.

  • Terrific Twitter tips culled from Sree Sreenivasan’s presentation at April’s American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) conference.
  • “I’m sorry – was my sarcasm not coming through clearly enough? Then let me voice my reaction a bit more bluntly: Boo-freaking-hoo. You poor thing, you.” Keith Cronin wants writers to “say no to woe.” To which I say: Amen.
  • Eight ways not to plug your book, courtesy of Mridu Khullar Relph and The Writer magazine. (By the way, Relph offers examples of freelance queries that worked for her to anyone who signs up for her weekly newsletter.)
  • Looking for some reading suggestions? Ron Slate asked thirty poets, novelists, editors, bloggers and reviewers (including yours truly) to share their summer reading lists.
  • This lovely, inspiring post from Laura Maylene Walter contains lots of interesting nuggets, including a mention of the annual awarding of the lucrative Sophie Kerr Prize (Walter is a previous prize recipient).

    • Have a great weekend, everyone. See you back here on Monday.

    Friday Finds for Writers

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    Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to read over the weekend.

  • Something that still (sometimes) stymies me: the who/whom divide.
  • On the VQR blog: Kathleen Schmidt explains “what to expect when you’re expecting to hire a book publicist.”
  • Jane Roper writes about “the book that didn’t break out, and the disease that did.”
  • Happy Short Story Month! See what Fiction Writers Review has in store.
  • A dispatch from the classroom: Natalie Wexler on why many students in the D.C. public schools can’t write.
  • I’m Boston-bound today for Grub Street’s The Muse & the Marketplace. And one of my conference co-panelists, Douglas Trevor, is featured this week over on the always-excellent Books, Personally blog. Read the Q&A.
  • Finally: some cautionary words about Bancroft Press, a publisher included in the current Practicing Writer. Check writer Betsy Robinson’s comment at the end of the Publishers Weekly article also mentioned in the newsletter.

    • Happy weekend, everyone. See you back here on Monday.