links for 2008-09-10

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Giving It Away, Faster Than Ever – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat "About a year ago, there was an item on GalleyCat about authors turning old, unsold manuscripts into free ebooks, with Melanie Lynne Hauser's Jumble Pie cited as a prime example. Hauser emailed yesterday to say that the novel's trackable readership had just passed the 1,300 mark—and, [...]

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Delmarva Review open to submissions

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

The Delmarva Review Seeks New Prose and Poetry Submissions Now Through Dec. 31, 2008 The Delmarva Review, a regional literary review open to all writers, is now calling for submissions of new poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction through Dec. 31, 2008, for the second issue. The editors will consider writers’ “best unpublished work.” The Review [...]

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Local News: Dahlia Lithwick, Award-winning Legal Correspondent, to Speak at Center

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate.com, contributing writer to Newsweek, and legal commentator for NPR’s Day to Day, will be speaking at the annual Open House / Reception of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. In 2001, Lithwick received the Online News Association’s award for online [...]

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He thought he was the only one!

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher of Star Trek: TNG) has written three nonfiction books and contributes to several web sites. But even he gets the willies when he sits down to write fiction: Writing fiction is a scary, solitary experience for me. Eventually, I get stuff to Andrew and we start working together to hammer out [...]

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VFH presents Daniel Walker Howe

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Ash Lawn-Highland • Virginia Foundation Center for the Book • Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society present: 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel Walker Howe Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, Oxford University and Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles and author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1845 Ash Lawn-Highland 1000 [...]

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Makers Series resumes at Christ Episcopal Church

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Join us as we kick off another year of the Makers Series this Friday, September 12th from 6-8 pm at Christ Episcopal. Each second Friday of the month, we invite three artists (a musician, a poet, and a visual artist) to share and discuss their artwork and creative process. This Friday come enjoy the music [...]

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Course updates from WriterHouse

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Couple of updates on classes at WriterHouse: Meet the Instructor: Andrew Ewell Meet one of our instructors … Andrew Ewell is teaching a creative nonfiction workshop and Mechanics of Fiction this fall. Check out our line-up of classes and sign up today — registration ends soon. WriterHouse: Is there a particular book or essay that made [...]

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