Listen to these lines from the first page of Caminar, Skila Brown’s debut novel in verse: Our village sat in…
Novelist Elmore Leonard passed away this month, leaving behind forty-some books and his “Ten Rules of Writing.” I agree with…
My agent nixed the novel I finished drafting earlier this year, and it’s taken me a couple of months to…
In the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Poets & Writers magazine, John Stazinski (page 29) bemoans the tendency of MFA programs…
Last month a young woman told me she was pursuing a PhD in children’s literature instead of an MFA because…