Work-in-Progress

Folio (the literary journal I, ahem, co-founded back in my grad school days) is sponsoring a poetry contest, which will be judged by the a...

While busy with something else, I ended up re-reading this post I wrote in January 2011, about whether a writer needs an MFA. It seemed surp...

My NEA application journey continues... (See previous posts to read about the beginning of this odyssey.) --I have the four pdfs. ...

The endless NEA application form, started yesterday , continues today: --I got access to the form! --The form is really only a sma...

Oh, sigh…it’s NEA grant application time for fiction/creative nonfiction.   Gird your loins.   I haven’t even seen an actual application fo...

Want to get away to write and/or to surround yourself with writers?   Check out the WC&C Scholarship Competition: AWP offers two an...

There are still some spaces available in my upcoming class at Politics & Prose bookstore in DC: Right Brain Writing: Guided Prompts...