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Our Writers Retreats Issue features a special section on inspiring conferences, residencies, and book festivals; a literary report from the front lines in Egypt; an interview with six new parents on how they balance writing and family; plus a profile of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout, tips on how to crowdfund your next book project, taking advantage of Pinterest, and much more.
Six writers discuss the beautiful blessings, overwhelming challenges, and the irrevocable changes that parenthood has brought to the second most important jobs of their lives.
The poetry of Rae Armantrout, whose tenth collection, Just Saying, is out in March 2013 from Wesleyan University Press, shines even more brightly in the shadows.
Contributing editor Jeremiah Chamberlin traveled to Nantucket to talk with the people responsible for starting an exciting new book festival that is growing on the beautiful island known primarily as a summer playground.
Take a literary tour of four grand hotels in Asheville, North Carolina; New Orleans; Estes Park, Colorado; and Coronado, California, where famous authors such as Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and William Faulkner relaxed and drew...
Designed to encourage direct engagement between writers and readers, the twenty-six-year-old Vancouver Writers Fest showcases the work of a diverse range of Canadian as well as international authors.
Offering two one-week sessions in July, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference has been the heart of the Pacific Northwest literary scene since 1974, focusing on community, craft, and spontaneity.
The International Belgrade Book Fair is the largest cultural event in Southwest Europe and is central to Serbia’s post-war cultural growth.
Contributor Keith Taylor describes his annual writers retreat to northern Michigan each summer where he finds inspiration for his poems working among environmental scientists.
Amber Dermont shares how feedback from her Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference workshop played out in the revision of her short story “Damage Control.”
The New Jersey-based publisher CavanKerry Press is helping patients and families awaiting medical attention with The Waiting Room Reader, an anthology of poetry and prose distributed for free to hospitals in select states across the country.
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 N+1, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Witness.
This spring the San Francisco-based nonprofit Sustainable Arts Foundation launches its residency grant program, which offers support to writers and artists residencies that accomodate writers and artists with children.
British bridal-gown designer Jennifer Pritchard Couchman created a dress made entirely out of book pages, which premiered at a literary festival in Lancaster, England, this past October.
Some of the nation's largest book sellers are seeing unprecedented global expansion by using digital platforms to their advantage.
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features Prairie Lights Books, a new publishing collaborative between the Iowa City-based Prairie Lights bookstore and the University of Iowa Press.
Melissa Levin of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council discusses how the nonprofit organization, which was displaced both by the September 11 attacks and more recently Hurricane Sandy, continues to provide office and studio space to writers and artists in lower Manhattan.
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 Denise Duhamel’s Blowout and Phillip Lopate’s Portrait Inside My Head, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
Charlene Oldham, a freelance writer and professor of journalism and business communications, offers advice to writers about how to use Pinterest to connect with and inspire readers.
Gigi Rosenberg provides crowdfunding tips for writers looking to raise money for research trips, workshops, and publication.
Contributing editor Stephen Morison Jr. reports on the literary community in Cairo, Egypt, interviewing authors, publishers, and booksellers about the ongoing protests, freedom of speech, and the future of Egypt.
Contributor Tony Eprile explores the notion of how what we see (and don’t see) defines us and offers guidance to writers about harnessing the powers of observation.
