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The Wednesday Web Browser: Another Type of Writers’ Strike, E.L. Doctorow in The New Yorker, and the Queens College MFA Program

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Having trouble mustering up sympathy for the screenwriters who were already getting paid big bucks for their words? Check out this version of a writers’ strike, courtesy of Karen E. Bender and Robert Anthony Siegel.
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This week’s New Yorker contains a short story by E.L. Doctorow.
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Curious about the new MFA program at Queens College of The City University of New York? Listen to director Nicole Cooley discuss it in this podcast.

New Low-Residency MFA Program to Launch

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Add one more low-residency MFA program to the roster: Chatham University is launching one. Says its Web site: “The program is very similar to our highly acclaimed residency program with the same innovative focus on nature, environment and travel writing.” First residency is scheduled for August 2009. Find out more here.

The Wednesday Web Browser: An Agent Interview, Freelancing Insights, Kudos, and Low-Res Advice

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The January-February 2008 issue of Poets & Writers is out. And it contains lots of good stuff (not all, unfortunately, online). You can, however, click over for an extended interview with agent extraordinaire Lynn Nesbit.
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Linda Formichelli discusses the divide between “pay-on-acceptance” and “pay-on-publication” policies.
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Congratulations to Practicing Writer subscriber Hank Nielsen, who has very kindly shared the news about “Half a Man,” his story/photo combination in the January/February 2008 issue of The Writer’s Eye. Hank writes: “Thank you so much for the lead.” You’re welcome, Hank!
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Finally, yours truly has an article posted over on AbsoluteWrite with tips on evaluating low-residency programs in creative writing.

The Wednesday Web Browser: Health Care for Freelancers, Poets & Writers Online, and a Carrot-based Craft Lesson

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I sense we’ll have some agreement on this: “Freelancers Need Universal Health Care Too.” (via Ed Champion)
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Among the online offerings in the new Poets & Writers magazine: Kelly Ferguson, MFA candidate in creative nonfiction, offers “Confessions of a Teaching Assistant”; my pal Andrew Furman writes about authors ending the lives of their series characters; Kevin Nance reports on a new “contest alternative”; and Kevin Larimer interviews the director of the new MFA program at CUNY’s Queens College. (This is a particularly good issue–if you don’t regularly read it, try to get yourself a copy.)
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And the ever-instructive Oronte Churm writes in praise of carrots.