Monthly Archives: October 2011
How to Rock a Writer’s Conference Before It Starts
Exactly one week from today I’ll be in New York for Backspace, a two-day conference limited to 100 writers with only literary agents/editors in small workshops. I am equal parts excited and nauseous at the thought of doing this on … Continue reading
Filed under Author events, Inspiration, Motivation, Starting up, Trials and Tribulations
Coming soon to an Ontario town near you: IFOA
The line-up at this year’s International Festival of Authors (IFOA) is an astonishing alphabet of some of the best writers of our time. In the Bs alone, we’ve got Anita Rau Badami, Russell Banks, Linwood Barclay, Peter Behrens, David Bezmozgis, … Continue reading
Filed under Author events, News
House of the rising prose
What differs slightly from the short story, a folk song, flash fiction, and say, microfiction? Short prose. I am doing this post to remind restless Maria to enter her work(s), because she happens to be a prosalicious genius. The kind … Continue reading
Filed under Awards and contests, Getting published, Motivation, News, Writing Contests
Doing a NYC Writing Conference on Eighty Dollars a Day
For three days in November I will be attending the Backspace Writers Conference in New York [insert squee’ing sound here]. This is my first conference and I am determined to do it as affordably as possible without sleeping at a … Continue reading
Filed under Author events, Life and stuff, News
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