An update on Oleada and first look at three new submission platforms for magazines and writers
Tag Archives: fiction
Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium 2025
This week I’ll be one of the features writers at the 37th Annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium.
Book Club Scam Targeting Authors
Some book club invitations may turn out to be too good to be true.
Where in the World Is A Writer’s Craft?
Seeing where A Writer’s Craft has been sold leads to insights and confirms my plans as I work toward a second edition.
Happy Official Pub Day!
Tree Fall with Birdsong is officially published today, May 21, 2025. Let’s celebrate!
Re-Release of River Hill: A Ghost Story
I am reposting a story on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads that I originally wrote on Twitter in 2019. Here’s how I’m doing that.
Two Tiers of Pushcart Nominations
Did you know that there are two kinds of nominations for the Pushcart Anthology? I was looking through some old papers this morning and was reminded of the distinction. The one most of us get is a nomination by the editors of a journal. Each editor of any literary magazine can send in up toContinue reading “Two Tiers of Pushcart Nominations”
Persona vs Narrator
Today a question came in about using persona to describe the narrator in fiction.
Alternate Structures for Fiction (etc.)
How A Writer’s Craft can be a (more) Anti-Racist Textbook, Part 8 Matthew Salesses’ chapter from Craft in the Real World, “An Example from East Asian and Asian American Literature,” begins to really get into some of the detail I’ve been looking for in terms of alternate structures and ways to rethink creative writing. IContinue reading “Alternate Structures for Fiction (etc.)”
Book Review: M. O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize
A big-hearted novel that fans of John Prine will appreciate.
Kendall Dunkelberg 