Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time.
on Nov 1, 2009 in writing National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.Please visit this site and click here to sponsor...

Flash Fiction Contest
on Oct 18, 2009 in contest THE COLLAGIST...

Hello Failure was presented in the Prelude Festival in 2007, and produced at PS 122 in March 2008.
on Oct 18, 2009 in coming soon "One day people are going to realize that Kristen Kosmas is the Chekhov of our time."—Laylage Courie"The play opens quietly, more or less, on the Eastern Seaboard and then closes, more or less miraculously, somewhere else altogether, achieving on i...

Preview: Issue No 9
on Oct 18, 2009Preview: Issue No 9Posted using ShareThis...

Keen Company kicks off its tenth anniversary season, with an evening of five short plays by American master Thornton Wilder, all of which will be maki
on Oct 18, 2009 in plays SynopsisThe evening of shorts includes Such Things Only Happen in Books, in which a domestic life is slowly unwrapped to reveal the complexities at the heart of all families; Cement Hands, about an uncle who attempts to explain to his niece the preca...

In 2009, 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books for the 2009 National Book Awards.
on Oct 18, 2009 in contest 2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTSFiction Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)Jayne Anne Phi...

Malilenas is funded in part by the Fund for Poetry
on Oct 18, 2009 in coming soon [excerpts]4.Something feeds me zeros untilall my energy is consumedin error correction.I find myselfon a path I did not ask foralong an arc I cannot prevent.I cannot prevent arcs.I cannot prevent pathsin the form of mathematical certaintyor probabili...

"This is a very bad book you're writing," I said to myself.
on Oct 14, 2009 in coming soon This title will be released on October 20, 2009.Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, writ...

on Oct 11, 2009 in Check This Out Amazon Exclusive: Marjane Satrapi Reviews The Locust and the Bird Marjane Satrapi was born in Iran and now lives in Paris, where she is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including The New Yorker and The New York...

Through the eyes of childhood friends the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally clear.
on Oct 11, 2009 in excerpt Say You're One of Them by Uwem AkpanAn excerpt from the story "An Ex-Mas Feast", the first in Uwem Akpan's collection of stories, Say You're One of Them.Now that my eldest sister, Maisha, was twelve, none of us knew how to relate to her anymore. She...