Monday Markets for Writers
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)
Posts Tagged‘Creative Nonfiction’
Sunday Sentence
Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“As Proust knew, all love depends not just on current infatuation but on retrospective jealousy; lacking a classy old lover, a Marquis de Norpois, to be jealous of, I was jealous of the men in Montreal health-food stories who had sold her millet and lecithin granules.”
Source: Adam Gopnik, “Bread and Women,” in The New Yorker (subscription required)
Friday Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)
Sunday Sentence
Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“Finally, like pavement weakened by too many cycles of heat and frost, our resistance buckled and cracked.”
Source: Michelle Nijhuis, “The Ghost Commune”, in Aeon magazine.
(There are so many more excellent sentences where this one comes from. Go read them all!)
Monday Markets for Writers
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)