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The Wednesday Web Browser

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  • Weren’t able to attend the Lorrie Moore/Deborah Treisman event at the New Yorker Festival? Me neither. Thankfully, Elissa Bassist was there.
  • New York Magazine‘s current issue includes a super article on Lydia Davis and her new translation of Madame Bovary.
  • David Abrams reflects on tech developments and their impact on his reading and reviewing.
  • Speaking of reviewing, I meant to share this list of HarperCollins copy contacts earlier. (Thanks to @BethFishReads for the tip.)
  • Looking for some writing prompts? Take a look at this collection from author and professor Daniel Nester.
  • Writer’s Digest interviews my teacher and friend Sage Cohen about her upcoming book, The Productive Writer (which I have already pre-ordered), and the writing life.
  • Over on my other blog, you’ll find a recap of Sunday’s Jewish Authors Conference.
  • And in case you’re wondering, dear freelancer, why the editor said “no,” here are 10 possible reasons.
  • I know, I haven’t been linking much to two things you’re probably seeing a lot of everywhere else lately: Jonathan Franzen and MFA programs. What can I say? I get tired.

    • The Wednesday Web Browser

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    Welcome to our Wednesday writerly link roundup. May I present:

    Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

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    • Resource alert! The next (October) issue of The Practicing Writer, a free e-newsletter for poets, fictionists, and writers of creative nonfiction, will go out to subscribers on Thursday. As usual, it will be filled with submission calls (paying opportunities only!), no-fee contest and competition announcements, and much more. Not yet a subscriber? Join us!
    • I’m a fan of residency programs, but rarely do I stumble on an announcement that simply makes me long to be awarded a residency in a particular program. But that’s exactly what happened when I discovered the Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France.
    • The Writer magazine’s blog lets us in on a really neat-sounding part-time freelance writing/blogging gig at Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel.
    • Jane Friedman shares 7 no-cost writing competitions that can yield excellent professional results.
    • Teaching jobs I learned about this past week: The University of Maine at Farmington seeks an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing “with significant credits in writing for film or television. Additional qualifications and publications in journalism and/or fiction would be welcome.” Bridgewater State University (Mass.) is also looking to hire an Assistant Professor (with a fiction specialty). The University of Southern Mississippi will be hiring an Associate/Full Professor to serve as a Distinguished Senior Fiction Writer. And the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is looking for “an advanced associate professor or a full professor to serve as the Glenna Luschei Professor and Editor of Prairie Schooner” (the applicant should have “a distinguished publication record as a poet, significant experience as an editor of creative works, a record of excellent teaching, and an active creative/research program.”
    • And some non-teaching jobs: DePaul University (Ill.) is looking for a Senior Writer, Penland School of Crafts (N.C.) seeks a Communications and Marketing Associate, and Heyday Books (Calif.) is advertising for a Marketing/Publicity Director.

    Friday Find: Kelly James-Enger’s Query Checklist

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    I have enough on my plate for this particular weekend without sending out any freelance queries, but for those of you who may indeed be developing some ideas and pitches, I’m going to send you right over to Kelly James-Enger’s Dollars and Deadlines blog, where you’ll find a very sage “10-Question Query Checklist.”

    Good luck with whatever projects are on your weekend agenda, folks. See you back here on Monday.

    Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

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  • St. Martin’s Press is running a short-story contest to mark the publication of Jeffrey Archer’s latest short-story collection. No entry fee. Prize: e-publication with St. Martin’s (& royalties). “Contest is open to legal residents of the U.S. aged 18 or older who have been Previously Unpublished (except that authors of self-published works only may enter, as long as the Manuscript submitted is not the self-published work) and who are not under contract with a publisher for publication of a novel.” Deadline: October 1, 2010 (11:59 p.m. ET). (via PublishersLunch)
  • From @thewritermag: “Calling all self-publishers! We’re looking for fresh articles on this topic. If you have a new angle, pitch us at queries(at)writermag(dot)com.”
  • The Sleep Club (U.K.) seeks bedtime stories (stories that “are to be read before falling asleep”). Stories for children are also welcome. Pays: “The Sleep Club is able to offer a nominal fee to those writers we chose to publish on the site.”
  • Chicagoans! Attend a free freelancing-for-magazines seminar presented by Dollars & Deadlines’s Kelly James-Enger. Tomorrow!
  • Oregon Humanities magazine has announced a call for submissions for its spring 2011 issue, on the theme of “fail”. Pitch/submit by October 18, 2010. More info on the call is available at the link above; for general information and pay rates, click here. NB: “At this time, we almost exclusively publish work by Oregon artists and writers.”
  • Choice Publishing Group has issued calls for submissions for three anthologies within the Patchwork Path series: “Star Spangled Banner,” “Star of Hope,” and “Baby’s Block.” Deadlines vary (the first, for “Star Spangled Banner,” which is looking for stories and essays “about living the American Dream,” is December 31, 2010). Pays: $50/published story. (Via PayingWriterJobs, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paying-writer-jobs).
  • Teaching jobs in poetry: Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of creative writing-poetry. Tufts University (Mass.) is advertising for a non-tenure-track (5-year position) Professor of the Practice of Poetry.
  • Teaching jobs with a fiction focus: Marymount Manhattan College (N.Y.) is looking for a tenure-track assistant professor of creative writing with a specialty in fiction. The University of Nevada-Las Vegas is also looking for a tenure-track assistant professor (fiction writer).
  • Teaching jobs with a multi-genre focus: The University of Montana invites applications for the position of assistant professor of creative writing, and they’re looking for “a writer of both nonfiction and fiction.” And the College of Wooster (Mass.) is advertising for a visiting assistant professor of English (three-year position), with a “background in teaching all forms and levels of writing, especially fiction and/or creative nonfiction; secondary expertise in U.S. ethnic literatures desirable.”
  • Rutgers (N.J.) seeks a Gift Acknowledging Writer, University of Michigan is looking for an Acknowledgment Letter Writer, and the University of Chicago seeks a Campaign Associate.