Work-in-Progress

Last night I finished American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell’s collection of stories, and it was amazing. One of the few collections that I...

Here’s an announcement from DC’s Split This Rock poetry festival (again, a lot of lead time, so no excuses for missing this deadline!): Spli...

My writing group has been especially productive, and I’m happy to bring to your attention the hilarious new book by Susan Coll: Beach Week ...

I declare today a birthday holiday from blogging…and now, let the wild rumpus start!

I picked up this link off Facebook; it’s a great, basic explanation of structure for novels and stories: http://www.arghink.com/2010/06/21/...

NOTE:  If you're looking for information on the Fall 2011 workshop, go here: http://workinprogressinprogress.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-bia...

I may haul myself off to Politics & Prose to listen to Bret Easton Ellis read from his new novel, Imperial Bedrooms , the sequel to Less...