Best links for 01/31/2012

Erika Dreifus’ Guide to Flash Nonfiction Markets « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog “Erika Dreifus, the blogger voice behind Practicing Writing, researched and assembled a list of flash nonfiction markets last week. She came up with 26 different markets, including a few which (like Brevity) offer payment to the writers published.” The Annie Dillard Award for Creative [...]

Best links for 01/28/2012

JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth gets a complete genealogy | Books | guardian.co.uk “But my devotion to Middle-earth pales before that of Emil Johansson, a photographer and chemical engineering student from Sweden, who has read “every book there is to read about Middle-earth” and who has spent years compiling a family tree of every character – every [...]

Upcoming events at WriterHouse: February & March

Coming to WriterHouse: » Friday February 3, First Fridays Art Opening for Robert Boucheron’s “The Imaginary City,” a series of pen and ink drawings of buildings, streets, and towns.  The scenes recall European and American cities of the nineteenth century and earlier, drawn freehand and to scale. » Thursday, February 9, 7pm, “Making a Graphic [...]

Best links for 01/24/2012

10 Bestselling Books with More Than 80 One-Star Reviews – GalleyCat “We checked negative reviews of ten authors at Amazon–follow the links below to the many one-star reviews received by bestselling authors. Twilight topped the list with 669 one-star reviews.” HT: DW Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Best links for 01/23/2012

A Daily Email for Aspiring Writers Is Truly Inspired – Culture – GOOD ‘According to Figment vice president Katie Robbins, the idea for the daily email was inspired by the Figment community’s demand for more ways to get inspired. Among Figment’s many services are social networking, feedback exchange opportunities, and writing contests, but users were [...]

Best links for 01/15/2012

Writing is Hard « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog Click for image. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Best links for 01/14/2012

Keep Giving Them You, Until You Is What They Want “This quote comes from Dennis Palumbo, a former screenwriter-turned-psychotherapist, writing about rejection. He says it as a reminder that rejection is often arbitrary and impersonal, so if you take it as a reason to be somebody you’re not you’re making a mistake.” The Business Case [...]

Best links for 01/13/2012

The Book Bench: Has James Joyce Been Set Free? : The New Yorker “The passage into public domain of Joyce’s major works has been talked up in certain quarters as though it were a bookish version of the destruction of the Death Star, with Stephen Joyce cast as a highbrow Darth Vader suddenly no longer [...]

Jonathan Coleman, conference panel coming to WriterHouse

Coming soon (very soon!) to WriterHouse: » Join us on Wednesday, January 18th at 7PM for “The Art of Responsibility of Narrative Nonfiction Writing” with Jonathan Coleman. Coleman is the bestselling author of Exit the Rainmaker, At Mother’s Request and Long Way To Go and co-author of the New York Times bestseller West by West, [...]

Best links for 01/10/2012

Prime Number Magazine First print annual edition is now available. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

SELC Writing Contest deadline January 13

Press Release: Deadline Nearing for SELC Nature Writing Contest Writers and journalists have just over a week to send submissions for SELC’s 17th annual Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment.  Submissions must be received by Friday, January 13, in our Charlottesville headquarters. >> Contest requirements are below, and more [...]

Best links for 01/04/2012

Wordnik’s Online Dictionary – No Arbiters, Please – NYTimes.com TRADITIONAL print dictionaries have long enlisted lexicographers to scrutinize new words as they pop up, weighing their merits and eventually accepting some of them. Not Wordnik, the vast online dictionary. No modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster ponders each prospective entry there. Instead, automatic programs search [...]

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