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11 Tips for Writers in Programs
Here are our Back to School suggestions: 11 Tips for Writers in Programs
Awesome International Horror Magazine’s Fiction Contest
The legendary horror movie magazine Fangoria is running a short story contest! We list writing contests all the time, but this one is truly unique, and an outstanding opportunity for any of you
Our Interview with Michael Rothenberg
Michael Rothenberg is the editor of the long-running and outstanding publication Big Bridge(www.bigbridge.org) and has been published in many online and print publications. He has also published several books of poetry.
I Really Hate Doing This! We Need Your Help!
I really hate doing this! We need your help again. We have run our: “Raise Money Campaign” very quietly. It turns out, that’s not the best way to try to raise money for something. So, we are running this request to all of our readers once again. I hate asking for money, and please believe […]
Thank you!
It’s been one year of original and outstanding content from our authors, and we want to say thank you! On May 10, 2011 we started a call for submissions and YOU answered! You sent us your stories and poetry and made us one of the number 1 writing sites on the web. We want to […]
The Top 5 Apps for Poets
The Top 5 Apps for Poets Inspire your inner Shakespeare To use an app or not to use an app—that is the question? However, when it comes to considering the following apps for reading poetry, writing poetry, jotting down snippets, and recording your inspiration and ideas for your next poem, the following 5 apps will […]
Freedom to Promote! A New Social Network for Writers!
This article has been updated at: https://www.everywritersresource.com/social-media-for-writers/
The Westchester Review’s “Writers Under 30” Contest
The rules are as follows: The contest is open to writers of poetry and fiction who live, work, study or grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., and who are under the age of 30 as of March 15, 2012
Interview with Midnight Screaming Magazine Editor Kara Ferguson
Interview with Midnight Screaming Magazine Editor Kara Ferguson m Kara Ferguson was born and raised in Memphis, TN. In late 2008 she obtained a BLS from The University of Memphis in Art History and English, and then thought it might be a good idea to decide what she wanted to be when she grew up. […]
A Writer Who Never Writes?
A Writer Who Never Writes? I had a friend recently ask me if he might be a writer. He hasn’t written anything, but for his whole life he has felt something about writing. His career has taken him a completely different direction, but now in his 30s he is interested in writing. So the question […]
A Happy Hour’s Command by Walt Whitman
A Happy Hour’s Command by Walt Whitman Down in the Woods, July 2d, 1882.-If I do it at all I must delay no longer. Incongruous and full of skips and jumps as is that huddle of diary-jottings, war-memoranda of 1862-’65, Nature-notes of 1877-’81, with Western and Canadian observations afterwards, all bundled up and tied by […]
Interview with Ladette Randolph Editor of Ploughshares
Ladette Randolph is the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares, and is on the faculty at Emerson College. The journal is number 2 on our top 50 literary magazine list. We are honored to have this interview. We are also looking for more interviews with editors. EWR: Can you tell us about Ploughshares? Randolph: Ploughshares was founded in […]
Interview with The Threepenny Review Wendy Lesser
Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review, author of nine books (including one novel, The Pagoda in the Garden, and eight nonfiction books, most recently Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets). Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, the Cullman Center for Scholars and […]
Growth, Health, and Work by Walt Whitman
Growth, Health, and Work by Walt Whitman I develop’d (1833-4-5) into a healthy, strong youth (grew too fast, though, was nearly as big as a man at 15 or 16.) Our family at this period moved back to the country, my dear mother very ill for a long time, but recover’d. All these years I […]