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Poets & Writers Magazine
G&A: The Contest Blog
A few weeks ago the Canadian Writers’ Trust announced the finalists for its Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, which could have induced a bit of sibling rivalry, given two of the names on the five-strong shortlist.
Grants & Awards
Your trusted source for information on writing contests, award winners, and more.
- DEADLINE: October 29
DIAGRAM
Hybrid Nonfiction Contest - DEADLINE: October 29
Wyoming Arts Council
Blanchan/Doubleday Memorial Awards - DEADLINE: October 30
Box Turtle Press
Mudfish Poetry Prize
Clips
10.22.10
Asunder, a collection of short stories and a novella by Robert Lopez, was published early this month by Dzanc Books, one of the innovative presses featured in the current issue.
Writers Recommend
10.20.10
“When I push weights around, I push words around. I usually hit the gym in the afternoon, and when I do, I think about the story or chapter I was working on that morning...."
10.13.10
“On a narrow strip of cork board, among news clippings and postcards, is a small vellum-colored paper square, printed by the artist Tom Ashcraft, that has inspired me for many years...."
Online Exclusives
John Casey's Writing Desk
11.01.10
In "Beyond the Compass," a profile of novelist John Casey that appears in the current issue, Joshua Bodwell describes the author's rustic writing shed that sits at the back corner of his property in Charlottesville, Virginia. "Inside the small room is a riot of papers," Bodwell writes.
DIY: How to Make and Bind Chapbooks
11.01.10
Whether you end up distributing your own prose or poetry at a reading or collecting the work of your friends in limited editions, these instructions on how to create and bind your own chapbooks offer hours of bookmaking fun.
Hurricane Katrina, Five Years Later
7.01.10
A selection of essays that commemorate what was lost and celebrate the literary arts in New Orleans.
Current Issue
Seventeen innovative magazines and presses; profiles of poet and Poetry editor Christian Wiman, memoirist Heather Sellers, and novelist John Casey; advice from an agent; the inside scoop on starting a literary journal; and more.
Nov/Dec 2010
Video
Take a look behind the scenes at the photo shoot with poet and fiction writer Heather Sellers, who is profiled in the November/December 2010 issue on the occasion of her new memoir, You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know.
Articles
The Story of Dzanc Books
by Jeremiah Chamberlin
Contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin profiles indie innovator Dzanc Books, which in four short years has gone from a start-up to a publisher with five imprints, three literary magazines, and a list of over fifty titles.
Inside Indie Bookstores: McNally Jackson Books in New York City
by Jeremiah Chamberlin
In the sixth installment of our series Inside Indie Bookstores, contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin travels to New York City to speak with Sarah McNally, owner of McNally Jackson Books.
Q&A: Papernick Revives Book Peddling
by Allison Gaudet Yarrow
Over the past few months fiction writer Jonathan Papernick, fed up with traditional mechanisms for bookselling, has followed the lead of the organic farmers, cheese mongers, and artisan bakers of community green markets by selling his books direct, out of a cart.
VQR’s Future in Doubt After Tragedy
by Kevin Nance
The Virginia Quarterly Review was rocked by the July 30 suicide of its managing editor, Kevin Morrissey, leaving the award-winning magazine’s future in doubt, as well as that of its editor.
The New Broom
by Kevin Nance
A survey of professional opinions, including those of the New Yorker's Paul Muldoon and the Southern Review's Jeanne Leiby, about the Paris Review's decision to reject previously accepted poems.
