Work-in-Progress

While I’m off in beautiful Spartanburg, SC, teaching in the Converse College Low-Residency MFA Program , I’m posting some of my favorite quo...

As you may recall , this past semester I taught a class called “Voice in Modern Fiction” at Johns Hopkins , and thanks to my carefully-selec...

Going to a writing conference this summer? Poet Eduardo C. Corral has some good advice for you. His piece is geared toward Bread Loaf, but...

Obviously, I’m interested in this opportunity. I don’t like the reading fee, but at least there’s a subscription to an excellent journal in...

What’s in a book cover? Plenty, and you can get an eyeful at The Book Cover Archive, a site “for the appreciation and categorization of ex...

South Carolina is on my mind as I get ready to head off to teach in the low-res MFA at Converse College in Spartanburg ...thanks to Philip f...

Here’s another post for writers with wanderlust—writer Annie Wald, who posted last week about what it’s like to be a writer living in a for...