2013

Of all the statements I’ve read or heard regarding creative writing, one of the truest is this: Writing cannot be taught, but it can be learned.  I know that sounds like one of those manipulative and infuriating quips you get from know-it-all Zen masters or really old, control-freak relatives intent on exuding wisdom, but it […]

Earlier this week, I joined visual artists Sheila Wyne and Hal Gage, both multiple-time Rasmuson grant awardees, and Rasmuson Program Officer Jayson Smart in a one-hour live broadcast (now archived at YouTube) about how to apply for a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. The deadline for literary artists is March 1, and the project award and fellowship award

Pneumonia’s healing process, I’ve learned, is one-step- forward, two-steps-back kind of progress.  It’s humbling to be told in no uncertain terms by your body that she’s had enough and rest is mandatory NOW. Reading has kept me from going insane. I want to share these book titles with you.  They have been good “friends” who

YOU ARE: A reader.  A writer. Someone with three hours free on a Saturday morning and the hankering to think and talk about prose. In possession of a narrative urge. A memoirist with a novel in him. A short story writer with a secret passion for the essay. A craft class addict. A first-time student.

Alan Heathcock’s fiction has been published in many of America’s top magazines and journals.  VOLT, a collection of stories, was a “Best Book 2011″ selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer, was named as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, selected as a Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month, as

Thanks to guest-blogger Eva Saulitis, whose new book, Into Great Silence, was released last week, and who will be offering a reading at craft talk at Great Harvest Bread on March 22 (sponsored by Alaska Quarterly Review and 49 Writers) and teaching a one-day clinic for 49 Writers, “Prose/Poem: Exploring the Boundary Between Poetry & Prose” on March

Photos by Wilton Barnhardt So it’s been a rough because I got the flu.  Yes, I did get a flu shot.  It hit the week before my first blog post was due.  I am not a deadline misser.  I am early on deadlines.  In high school, I never waited until the night before to write

Dear Writergirl, About a month and a half ago, I started writing a novel. I’d planned it a bit, and was doing well for a while, writing half a chapter every day. Then I stopped. I stopped because I wasn’t sure how to get to the next stage of the story, and it was close