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Friday Finds for Writers

by Erika Dreifus on
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Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • Beautiful essay by Daniel Nester on the influence of poet Philip Levine.
  • “Scratch Magazine publishes smart, useful stories about the intersection of writing and money. Scratch is for writers of all genres and trades—and for anyone who wants to know where the publishing and journalism industries go from here. Each quarterly issue features in-depth interviews, reportage, resources, and personal stories about the work of being a writer.” Check out the free preview issue. Perhaps, like me, you’ll decide to subscribe.
  • Ethan Gilsdorf: “Schmoozing: It’s the dirty secret that makes the writing world go ’round. This skill is especially key to freelance writing, but really it’s what connects the movers and shakers and wannabes that make up writing’s major genres — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting.”
  • Michael Nye on the waiting-game part of litmag submissions/publication. Related topic: Jessica Bell takes us behind-the-scenes at a literary journal (hers).
  • On the Ruminate magazine blog: reflections on perseverance, from one of the magazine’s contest winners. (via Jessica Wilbanks)

    • Have a great weekend, everyone!

    Friday Finds for Writers

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • If you were under a rock or otherwise off the grid yesterday, you may be one of the last people to not yet know that Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Some of the Munro-related material that I’m looking forward to sifting through this weekend includes a treasure trove of appreciations that appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review several years ago, a blog post and review essay by D.G. Myers, and a Missouri Review essay by Cheryl Strayed.
  • A timely post (given the above) on “what makes a good short story,” by Best American Short Stories series editor Heidi Pitlor. (h/t @JonnyPapers, though soon after he shared it, I saw it everywhere.)
  • For your weekend listening: a podcast of a conversation between André Aciman and Aleksandar Hemon on displacement, exile, and memory.
  • Couldn’t wait to dig in when I saw that Rebecca Klempner had written a post on writing in the second person. (Then I was surprised and honored to see myself mentioned therein.)
  • I’ll admit it: I couldn’t accomplish as much as I do interview/Q & A-wise if I didn’t rely on email mode. Some writers think email interviews are just THE WORST. But there are ways to improve them, as Carol Tice points out.

    • Have a great weekend, everyone.