Work-in-Progress

I’ve been having a summer of waiting to see what will happen with the novel I finished revising in June. I’m terrible at waiting—I’m the mos...

I regret that I sounded so shallow in yesterday’s post, as if I only waste time by looking at funny cat pictures . Actually, it’s importan...

Don’t get me wrong. I love the PEN/Faulkner Foundation : the award for writers , the Writers in the School Program, and the reading serie...

Anyone who has ever applied for an academic job will appreciate this list of “suggestions” for search committees.

I find that the internet is a major distraction when writing, whether it’s a useful distraction (with a few clicks on the keyboard, I can re...

Here are two essay contests for high school students: The annual John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest invites high school studen...

Here’s a chilling story about poet Stacey Lynn Brown, who had VERY bad dealings with Cider Press Review, the press that picked her manuscri...