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In this feature, we offer a few suggestions for podcasts, smartphone apps, Web tools, newsletters, museum shows, and gallery openings: a medley of literary curiosities that you might enjoy. And if you don't? Quit complaining, they're free.
A look at a sculpture by U.K. artist Su Blackwell, one of the thirty-three artists showcased in the art book and craft guide Playing With Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book, published by Quarry Books in April.
The Poetry Society of America, the oldest poetry organization in the country, is marking its centennial this year with a number of special events that are being held across the country.
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features CityLit Press, an independent publisher based in Baltimore that provides a venue for writers who might otherwise be ignored by larger independent or commercial publishers.
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Little Star, Still Crazy, the Paris Review, the Southwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, and Linebreak.
In the third installment of our series Inside Indie Bookstores, contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin travels to Chicago to talk with Linda Bubon and Ann Christophersen, co-owners of Women & Children First.
An interview with Lucille Clifton for a special April 1999 issue of the magazine, the cover of which featured the poet.
Agent Katherine Fausset answers questions from readers about the agent's role in submitting work to literary magazines and
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Ampersand Books, an independent publisher based in Gulfport, Florida.
Advancements in print-on-demand technology, such as the Espresso Book Machine, are offering publishers and authors alike new opportunities to bridge the still-pronounced divide between electronic and "tangible" publishing.
In this new feature, we offer a few suggestions for podcasts, smartphone apps, Web tools, newsletters, museum shows, and gallery openings: a medley of literary curiosities that you might enjoy. And if you don't? Quit complaining, they're free.
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Dan Chiasson's Where's the Moon, There's the Moon and Monika Fagerholm's The American Girl, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
When wildfire tore through Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in the spring of 2004, nearly everything, aside from some tall oak trees, was destroyed. Now, after almost six years of fund-raising, brainstorming, architectural planning, and construction, Dorland is once again welcoming writers.
Beginning this year New Poets for Peace, the New York City branch of Poets for Peace—a grassroots group that for the past decade has held free, donation-optional readings across the country to raise funds for international relief organizations—plans to host an event every six weeks in Manhattan, including a special reading and silent auction on March 21 in observance of the seventh anniversary of the U.S. military's invasion of Iraq.
In the second installment of our series Inside Indie Bookstores, contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin travels to Portland, Oregon, to talk with Michael Powell, owner of Powell’s Books.
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Creative Nonfiction, Spinning Jenny, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Natural Bridge, Free Lunch, Abe's Penny, Flurry, and Shape of a Box.
A look at one of the images from Fallen Books—a collection of photographs from earthquake-rattled libraries, published by the Paris-based independent Onestar Press in 2008—which will be on display at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, from March 25 to May 1.
After six years of running Soul Mountain Retreat at her own home in East Haddam, Connecticut, founder and executive director Marilyn Nelson speaks about her experience as she enters her final year at the helm of the unique retreat.
After we sharerd our list of the fifty most inspiring authors in the world, we asked our readers to add their favorites. Culled from the responses on pw.org and our Facebook page, here are the results.
We’ve shared our list of the fifty most inspiring authors in the world—those living authors who shake us awake, challenge our ideas of who we are, embolden our actions, and, above all, inspire us to live life more fully and creatively. Now we want to hear from you: Which authors inspire you?
It may not have been The Year Print Died, but 2009 will undoubtedly go down as the year digital literature became impossible to ignore. From celebrity authors' crowdsourcing stories through Twitter, to the proliferation of online publishing platforms, to the bruiting discord over the Google Book Search settlement, something new is plainly afoot in the publishing world, even if the ramifications for writers are still more a matter of conjecture than measurement.
The latest casualty in the ongoing siege of academic presses and literary magazines in the economic downturn was recorded last fall when Northwestern University announced plans to end the forty-five-year run of its prize-winning journal TriQuarterly as a print publication. After the magazine's final print issue this spring, it will become an online-only, student-run publication.
