What a week. In the midst of many doom-and-gloom predictions, the Washington Post made an announcement this week about dropping Book World […]
Tara Laskowski, featured frequently on this site (if too often only incidentally), was named the Kathy Fish Fellow at SmokeLong
In Dallas Hudgens’ first novel, Drive Like Hell, 16-year-old Luke Fulmer gets his license, steals the neighbor’s car, and almost
Edgar Allan Poe turns 200 on Monday, January 19, and the bicentennial has prompted a series of celebrations in several
An interest in writing as a craft has driven many of the posts on this site — from my early
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.
Kate Betterton’s novel Where the Lake Becomes the River won the 2008 Novello Literary Award, an annual contest for writers
Among the award recipients at this past weekend’s Kennedy Center Honors was dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp, maybe most widely
A native of Washington D.C. and now the director of the Creative Writing Program at Purdue University, Porter Shreve is
Ostriches bury their heads in the sand. In the midst of all the current publishing upheaval (explored elsewhere better than
…but I’ve been reading and rereading a few mystery stories about dogs recently — specifically the kind that don’t bark.