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 […]
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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 […]
Mark Twain’s Letter to Mrs. Grover Cleveland
To Mrs. Grover Cleveland, in Washington: Hartford, Nov. 6, 1887. My Dear Madam,—I do not know how it is in the White House, but in this house of ours whenever the minor half of the administration tries to run itself without the help of the major half it gets aground. Last night when I was […]
Interview with Mary Stone Assistant Editor of Blue Island Review
Interview with Mary Stone Assistant Editor of Blue Island Review Mary Stone’s poetry and prose has appeared or is forthcoming in A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Notes Magazine, Mochila, Coal City Review, Amoskeag, Lingerpost, FutureCycle Poetry, Flint Hills Review, North Central Review, Spring Formal, Canvas and other fine journals. In 2011 she received the Langston Hughes […]
Interview with Missouri Review Editor Michael Nye
Interview with Missouri Review Editor Michael Nye Michael Nye is the former managing editor of River Styx, and has taught creative writing at the University of Missouri, Lindenwood University, and Washington University in St. Louis. His short stories have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, New South, Quiddity, Red Cedar Review, Sou’wester, and South Dakota Review, […]
Interview with Tin House Editor Rob Spillman
Interview with Rob Spillman We were excited and honored that Rob Spillman would take part in our interview series. Mr. Spillman is editor and co-founder of Tin House. The publication is without question one of the best literary magazines in the country. He spoke to us by email. We enjoyed this interview very much. EWR: […]