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Friday Find: AWP Podcast Series

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Like podcasts? Then you’ll be glad to read this announcement from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP):

“Welcome to the AWP Podcast Series. These podcast episodes feature recordings from selected events at the AWP Annual Conference. We are pleased to present readings and discussions from Rae Armantrout, Mary Jo Bang, Charles Baxter, Toi Derricotte, Stuart Dybek, Cornelius Eady, Nick Flynn, Carolyn Forche, William Gass, Linda Gregerson, Donald Hall, Edward Hirsch, August Kleinzahler, Philip Lopate, Heather McHugh, Alice McDermott, Honor Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Marilynne Robinson, Patricia Smith, Gerald Stern, Mark Strand, C.K. Williams, C.D. Wright, and many other wonderful writers!”

New podcasts are being added each Wednesday. But note this one catch:

Podcast Episodes from the 2007 conference will remain open to the public for listening. Episodes from the 2008 conference onward are available to AWP Members only through AWP eLink, an online service portal providing our members with the most up to date AWP resources for writers, teachers, and writing programs. Please check back for the most recently published episodes and below for a complete list of recordings currently available through eLink.

So, although most of the content is limited to AWP members, everyone can enjoy some of it for free. Perhaps you’ll try out one of the offerings this weekend.

However you spend your weekend, have a good one, and we’ll see you back here on Monday.

Friday Find: Home-Grown Resources

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I’m going to take the “easy” way out today, and remind you of all of the resources you can find right here on this very site.

By hovering over the “Resources” tab on the ErikaDreifus.com homepage you’ll find a drop-down menu (if you go ahead and click “Resources,” you’ll get a page providing the corresponding tabs to menu items).

And these are the subjects you’ll discover:

  • MFA Programs
  • Conferences & Centers
  • Where to Publish Your Work
  • Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
  • Jobs for Writers
  • Interviews with Practicing Writers
  • Jewish Writing

Lots of information in every area. Plenty to keep you occupied, inspired, and informed over the weekend and beyond.

Enjoy, and see you back here next week.

The Wednesday Web Browser for Writers: #BEA11 Edition

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  • Maybe you’ve heard about a little gathering taking place in New York this week? Something called BookExpo America? No? In that case, you may want to read this primer for some background. (hat tip to Jessica Strawser)
  • If you’re feeling left out because you aren’t attending BEA, don’t worry. I live here in New York, and I’m not attending either. But I am staying semi-informed by following online coverage, including occasional monitoring of the #BookExpo and #BEA11 hashtags.
  • Attention, reviewers and book bloggers: Just because you’re not going to BEA doesn’t mean you can’t find out which titles will be out later this year. Check out Barbara Hoffert’s BEA Galley & Signing Guide for some information nuggets. (Yes, you’ll have to do some detective work about pub dates, but at least this can get your started.)
  • Complementary conference info: a guide to BEA parties that don’t appear to require invitations.
  • A number of other literary events take place in tandem (officially or unofficially) with BEA. One of these is the Jewish Book NETWORK conference, which features a Meet the Author program. Tune in tomorrow for an account of my Meet the Author debut, which took place on Sunday.

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  • Are you keeping up with Short Story Month? Be sure to check the #ssm2011 hashtag on Twitter!
  • Another segment of Short Story Month: the Collection Giveaway Project on the Fiction Writers Review (FWR) blog. Check out the ever-growing list of participating bloggers (and the titles that are available for YOU to win!).
  • Also on FWR: tremendous story-focused content. Among my faves: Laura Furman on choosing the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories; Anne Stameshkin on Lesley Dormen’s “The Old Economy Husband”; and yours truly on Five Ways to Celebrate Short Stories.
  • Speaking of short stories, I’m proud to announce that my story, “The Kiss,” is now live on Literary Mama.
  • More wonderful writing exercises from Midge Raymond.
  • Dinty W. Moore recommends six memoirs.
  • And while we’re on the subject of nonfiction: Linda K. Wertheimer shares lessons learned at the recent Grub Street Muse & the Marketplace conference in Boston.
  • More from Massachusetts: This weekend will bring the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Although I can’t attend, one of my poems will be there, stitched within The Poetry Dress. (Thanks to Chloe Yelena Miller for bringing this project to my attention.)

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    Between an extended weekend in Massachusetts, an especially busy week at the day job, and a conference presentation coming up (gulp!) tomorrow, this hasn’t been the best week for me so far as my keeping an eye on the Web goes. But I’ve done my best, and I’m happy to share these finds with you.

  • My trip to Massachusetts was prompted by the always-excellent Muse & the Marketplace conference that is organized by the fine folks at Grub Street, Inc. Click here to read an interview with Grub’s founder, Eve Bridburg, and then move on to Nina Badzin’s conference recap. (You can also scroll through all of the #Muse2011 posts on Twitter to get a sense of some of what went on and the inspiration and camaraderie that the conference engendered.)
  • I loved Ellen Meeropol’s recent blog post on moral ambiguity in fiction (and I’d have loved it even without its generous mention of my story, “For Services Rendered.”
  • Tayari Jones (who will be our Q&A guest in the June issue of The Practicing Writer) shares “Five Things I Wish I Had Known When I Published My First Book.”
  • Time to remind you that May is Short Story Month! I’m proud to be part of the team at Fiction Writers Review that is celebrating with a slew of projects and special posts. Author and editor Matt Bell has a nice collection of other participating sites/blogs/etc. over on his homepage. Please remember that there’s still plenty of time for you to enter the short-story collection giveaway right here on Practicing Writing (copies of Midge Raymond’s Forgetting English and my own Quiet Americans are up for the winning).