It is easy for a writer to feel like Sisyphus, rolling the boulder uphill only to have it roll back down before he can reach the top. You send a story to a lit mag and they reply that your…
AWP Virtual Book Fair + Announcement
We are so sad to say that we have decided not to attend AWP20 this year. Due to the recent threats of the Corona Virus in San Antonio, we didn’t feel safe traveling. As many small presses have expressed, making…
It’s Not Your Story: Citizenship Rules for Writers Groups by Ann S. Epstein
Writers Group Reasons and Risks Some rules of literary practice beg to be broken. Skillful writers who chafe at restrictions can do so with creative results. Certain pre- and proscriptions, however, are worth heeding, among them the proper conduct for…
The Writer as Completer of Reality by David Massey
I have written before of the necessity of a fiction writer’s belief in the story he is telling. Hallie Burnett has expressed this necessity in a few words. She wrote that “one cannot stress too often that your own credibility…
A Conversation with Heather Lang Cassera by Risa Pappas
Heather Lang Cassera holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry with a Certificate in Literary Translation. In 2017 she was named Las Vegas’ Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. Her poems have been published…
A Conversation with C.S.E. Cooney by Alicia Cole
C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in the Borough of Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015). Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March…