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#PWNonfictionPrompt : Consider your relationship to an accessory or stylistic embellishment that has played some role in your life and write a personal essay about its relevance and connection to your identity. Read more: at.pw.org/SmokyEyes
Innovative independent press April Gloaming Publishing is “pushing perceived limitations in medium and genre.” In our new issue, read about book-cover designs curated “based on the manuscript’s mood,” and baked goods inspired by book themes: at.pw.org/AprilGloaming
#ClipOfTheDay : In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, author Rachel Heng discusses her latest novel, The Great Reclamation, and talks about writing fiction that is both historical and speculative. at.pw.org/Heng
#PWFictionPrompt : Find a sculpture that catches your eye and write a story inspired by the artwork. Feel free to go beyond a literal interpretation, perhaps using the piece’s title as a launchpad. Read more: at.pw.org/Metamorphosis
Reporting from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Jonathan Vatner (Jonathan Vatner) examines “how literary organizations should plan for dealing with COVID as it continues to mutate and infect.” at.pw.org/ConferencesInC…
#WritersRecommend : “If I feel certain I can too easily predict what’s about to happen...then I might try cascading off from that: switching out the presumed move for something slightly more disarming,” says blake butler, author of Molly (@ArchwayEditions). at.pw.org/WRButler
#ClipOfTheDay : Watch the trailer for the Netflix adaptation of Australian journalist and author Trent Dalton’s 2019 novel, Boy Swallows Universe, which follows a young boy growing up in the underbelly of 1980s Brisbane. at.pw.org/BoySwallowsUni…
#PWPoetryPrompt : Write a poem about a past, current, or future food trend. Are you on board or skeptical? Have fun with food vocabulary and play around with sounds and rhythms that match your selection. Read more: at.pw.org/FutureFood
Attention poets: if your first or second collection is slated for publication, you may be eligible to apply for this free publicity intensive designed to maximize the exposure of your book. Learn more: at.pw.org/GTWO
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“It’s also important to be in solidarity with other communities in color,” says Cathy Linh Che in conversation with Megan Kamalei Kakimoto about Kundiman: at.pw.org/CathyLinhChe
“The collection gestures toward alternate understandings, ways of measuring, and a different scale of value.” In today’s #TenQuestions , Kimberly Blaeser discusses her new poetry collection, out now from University of Arizona Press: at.pw.org/10Q4Blaeser
In our latest issue, Eileen Pollack considers ChatGPT through a writer’s lens. Is there any place for the use of AI within an MFA program—where students are encouraged to “express their own identity and experience the rush of creativity”? #PrintOnly : at.pw.org/JanFeb2024
#FromTheArchive : “When I feel like I can’t write, that feeling tends to stem from a sense that I have no one and nothing with whom or which to speak,” says Sumita Chakraborty in #WritersRecommend , offering ways to bring purpose back to your writing. at.pw.org/SumitaChakrabo…
#PWPoetryPrompt : Write a poem that confronts an issue of strife or suffering, but also recognizes and allows room for the existence of love and little joys. #FromTheArchive : at.pw.org/LittleJoys
#ClipOfTheDay : Joshua Burton reads from his debut poetry collection, Grace Engine (U of Wisconsin Press), for this Splice Poetry Series reading at the Saturn Bar in New Orleans with poet Nikki Ummel. at.pw.org/SplicePoetryBu…