The leaves that fell in February |
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Claudia Rankine once said ... |
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Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it.
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Jessica Bell and Annalisa Crawford |
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The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards Finalists |
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We are ecstatic to announce that Jessica Bell and Annalisa Crawford are finalists in The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards with their novels How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness and Grace and Serenity.
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Cordelia Biddle |
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Shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award |
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With this book, author Cordelia Frances Biddle documents the epic fight between Nicholas Biddle and Andrew Jackson over the fate of the Second Bank of the United States, shedding new light with previously undiscovered documents while bringing the story to life in a compelling biography of political intrigue.
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Zelda Fitzgerald once said ... |
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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This Might Be True |
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Janet Clare
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"Carol had been waiting for her son to leave his wife, Polly, a woman of staggering laziness and delusional fears that sent her children running for their lives." Read Janet Clare's latest story, "This Might Be True," recently published by Red Fez.
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Playing Chicken |
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Scott Gould
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"Yet I do not come to preach. I come today with a message, and it is this: Folks you wouldn’t normally put together are winding up under the same roof. And they are getting along." Check out Scott Gould's latest short story, "Playing Chicken," recently published by Pangyrus.
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An Angel in Auschwitz |
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Mark E. Lieb |
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Mark E. Lieb's An Angel in Auschwitz was recently read on stage by the Stageworks Theatre.
A young Jewish man about to start college attempts to persuade his reluctant father to finally divulge what he saw when he infiltrated Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.
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Peaky Minders |
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John McCaffrey
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"My only real foes are the squirrels that poach peaches from my trees, and as for smoking cigarettes, two puffs, inhaling or not, sends me into a three-day coughing fit." Check out John McCaffrey's latest Good Men Project post, "Peaky Minders."
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50 Words at a Time |
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Gleah Powers
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"What kind of blowjobs does a calligrapher that sometimes/makes money and sometimes doesn’t, give?" Read Gleah Powers's poem, "50 Words at a Time," recently published by Canopic Publishing.
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How MFA Thesis Novel Went From Word File to Actual Published Book |
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Ian M. Rogers
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"Truth be told, I had no idea how much work and how many steps go into publishing a book, which is why it was cool to learn the process when my own novel got made into an actual hard-copy book." Ian M. Rogers's latest blog post on the process of preparing his manuscript, MFA Thesis Novel, for publication.
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Sugar, Sugar |
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Carolyn R. Russell
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"With a start I realize that my younger daughter has just cast a spell. On me. I look away. The moment belongs to her alone." Check out Carolyn R. Russell's micro memoir, "Sugar, Sugar," recently published by Motherwell Magazine.
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The Half-Lives of Lit Mags |
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Guinotte Wise |
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"Of the roughly 150 literary journals that have allowed my words onto their printed and/or digital pages, I have counted fourteen that are no longer with us. About ten percent." In "The Half-Lives of Lit Mags," Guinotte Wise discusses the past, the tenuous present, and the uncertain future of literary journals.
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Apple Gidley
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In a recent episode of The Bookcase, host Shawna K. Richards interviewed Apple Gidley about her interest in Crucian Fusion and the US Virgin Islands.
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Steve Zettler
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Steve Zettler was recently on The Liars Club Oddcast discussing his writing, writing with his spouse, Cordelia Biddle, and more.
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Caroline May once said ... |
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March, when days are getting long, Let thy growing hours be strong to set right some wintry wrong.
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by Melanie Faith |
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Writing It Real: Creating an Online Course for Fun and Profit
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Packed with exercises, a sample syllabus, a self-quest survey about your teaching strengths, and a resources list, this book is a one-stop read to launching your online courses and inspiring your writing students.
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by Fredrick Soukup |
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Blood Up North
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Sister and brother. A loyalty forged in the crucible of their tragic upbringing in the Northwoods town of Backus, Minnesota. Cass, a quiet young woman caring for the grandmother who raised them. Jack, a fugitive carrying a life-changing sum of stolen drug money.
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by Michael Wayne Hampton |
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Dream Kids
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Out of place at an experimental high school, sensitive high school junior Bryce Hughes steals his father's pharmaceutical sales samples to stay steady and share recreationally with his wealthy, spoiled, nihilistic friends at their wild weekend parties. Hopelessly hung up on his ex-girlfriend, Paige, whose emotions are as fickle as her taste for fashion, Bryce can barely see the quiet scholarship girl, Jaycee, who adores him.
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by Ian M. Rogers |
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MFA Thesis Novel
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Creative ne’er-do-well Flip Montcalm isn’t cut out for office life, so he jumps at the chance to join an MFA program in the rural Midwest. Broke and infatuated with the twentieth-century literary canon, he alienates his writing workshop with five hundred pages of existential dread, can’t name a single player on the university football team, and is actively trying to steal a rival writer’s girlfriend.
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