So much for the more civilized apple trees (urbaniores, as Pliny calls them). I love better to go through the old orchards of ungrafted apple trees, at what ever season of the year,—so irregularly planted: sometimes two trees standing close together;
Prices for the customary kinds of winter fuel having reached an altitude which puts them out of the reach of literary persons in straitened circumstances
Want to get published but hate sending out your work to 100s of magazines?
This one blows my mind. Yesterday Forbes published an article online called Which Publishers are the Best at Selling Ebooks in 2013. Read the article. It’s great. They plan on keeping tally of all the books sold on a weekly
This list is a look at the top 10 Highest Paying Literary Prizes in the United States. If you won any of these prizes it would change your career forever and most-likely your life.
Yes! Do you want to win $250 for 1 poem, and have it published on our site? Do you want $25o to go on a summer picnic or go to the zoo or take swimming lessons? Great! We are giving away $250 for the best poem we receive starting today April 4th 2013
Well I’m getting a lot of email from unhappy writers complaining about reading fees. I’ve heard reading fees called amateurish, ridiculous and just stupid
We were very lucky recently to get an email from the people over at London Street Art: http://streetartlondon.co.uk/ This is a group and a site who know a whole lot about the London Street Art scene.
So I've been having conversations with writers in the real world and on twitter about the difficulties of making money from literary writing.
Time is running out for mid-career writers to submit their work for one of the richest literary awards in the United State, the St. Francis College Literary Prize. The award offers a $50,000 book prize for authors who have published their 3rd to 5th book.
Nate Howard has traveled the world as a photojournalist. The photographs he sent to us were from, Russia, Mexico, Iraq, and Kosovo. Photography taken all around the world does not always have a lot of similarities
Art by William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr. Who's Afraid of the Spectacle No. 8 Whos ...
Art by James Sholes Yawn Ween Goals Classic Crutch Baiting James Sholes is an artist and ...
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Texas. His books include a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK.
The human form inspires me to paint. I look for a gesture that I can exploit in order to reveal something about the subjects personality. For me it's more about the manipulation of the paint, the seduction of colour and texture and the excitement of composition. I love that a painting speaks to us without words.
Art by Alice France 2011 Italy Italy Sam Italy Oslo Alice AliCè: Alice Pasquini, principally a ...
Art by Kurt Wenner Dies Irae Incident at Waterloo Magic Carpet Phaeton Greenpeace Million Names ...
What, then, is the controlling purpose?
Here is our new and growing list of literary magazines. This list will be updated, annotated, and expanded. For now, here is a long list of literary magazines that pay you for submissions. We will update our literary magazines lists, and this list will eventually get it's own page.
We are looking for the best coffee house, in the world for writers. I want ...
We are putting out a new request for ads on our site. We have very ...
Lately I’ve seen more and more literary readings, poetry and fiction, arriving in full fledged bars. I’m sure this isn’t a new trend. Places like NYC have been doing this for many years, but it seems like many bar owners in even suburban towns are beginning to host readings on their slow nights.
How to End a Letter by Lewis Carroll If doubtful whether to end with ‘yours faithfully’, or ...
We are announcing a new services from EWR. It seems like a natural progression for us to now offer free writing courses from EWR. We have become so involved with the
Blurb is a company that recently came across our radar, and I have to say I like what I see. They offer self-publishing and on demand printing for anyone looking. Now if you just want to put together a very nice looking photo book of all your memories, I'm very sure the writer in your life would love it...
Ploughshares, one of our favorite literary magazines is running a new contest for short stories, essays, and poetry, and each can win a prize of $1000! If you don't know Ploughshares, you are missing out. We have them on our top literary magazine list for a reason. They are developing new services for writers over there, and publishing amazing quality work. Visit them, AND submit a story, essay, or poem to this contest!
Well if you searched our site on Google yesterday, and maybe today, you will see a warning that says our site "may have been compromised." Boy did this get us all jumping. We did not know that around the time of the Google crawl, we had someone having fun with the site. When I say fun, I mean they were trying to cause us all kinds of trouble and break into our home page
Perhaps by the time this column appears, our economy will have improved and people who want to work can find good work. Minnie Bruce Pratt, who lives in Syracuse, N.Y., has a new book, mentioned below, in which there are a number of poems about the difficulties of finding work and holding on to it. Here’s an example:
A while back, we published a poem about a mockingbird, but just because one poet has written a poem about something, he or she doesn’t hold rights to the subject in perpetuity. Here’s another fine mockingbird poem from Carol V. Davis, who lives in Los Angeles.
