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The Lion Roars at Politics & Prose

As we edge into the new year, bookstore events are still mostly on hold in North Carolina, one of my […]

Narrative Magazine has recently begun offering a “Story of the Week” and “Poem of the Week.” As a fiction writer myself,

I’m honored that The Rambler, a fine, fine magazine based in North Carolina, has published my short story “Shrimp and

Kyle Semmel’s work as publications & communications manager of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, is unquestionably a full-time job.

In the wake of yesterday’s post about Blackbird, a play reflecting on a relationship between a 40-year-old man and a

Last night, Tara and I had the fine privilege of seeing the Studio Theatre’s production of David Harrower’s Blackbird, catching it

The closer we get to the actual holidays, the slimmer the pickings in readings and signings. In North Carolina, the

An article in this morning’s Washington Post (Dec. 16) explored the question of whether the Newbery Medal, the world’s oldest

Kate Betterton’s novel Where the Lake Becomes the River won the 2008 Novello Literary Award, an annual contest for writers

I just received the new issue of Mystery Scene, and was pleased to see Donna Andrews on the cover. Andrews

Kate Betterton‘s first novel, Where the Lake Becomes the River — set largely in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era — won

Among the award recipients at this past weekend’s Kennedy Center Honors was dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp, maybe most widely