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This Sunday teh awsomenezz of Merrill Feitell reads with me at The Writer’s Center at 2 pm. In celebration, I share this, my vaguely stalkerish tale of discovering Merrill’s work: How I came to love Merrill Feitell—and her work. In one of my undergraduate writing workshops, my instructor told our class we should read new
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Nanopedia has grown out of a writing prompt I gave myself a few years ago. For a long time, those pieces were all individual prose poems, but I began to see that they had similar concerns, themes, and images. “The moon watches you through her veil of thin clouds” and “He brings the night into
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Dzanc Books’s new online literary magazine The Collagist is alive today. Editor Matt Bell explains in this letter: “Looking at this list of contributors, I am so blown away by the size of their talents, the scope of their accomplishments, by the potential of the future words each has yet to unleash upon the page.
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…for you to read Matt Bell’s The Collectectors, which is now available free via Issu in a special extended version. Bell’s prose chapbook tells the story of two very strange brothers whose home becomes both a sanctuary of beloved objects and a repository of needless things over the course of their lives. Bell’s short, lyric
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OMG, I love it. We have finally negotiated our differences effectively and have been getting along famously for most of the week. (My first BlackBerry was defective and died the morning after I got it–that’s what caused most of the problems.)
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The Writer’s Center Announces Fellowships for Emerging Writers The Writer’s Center, metropolitan DC’s community gathering place for writers and readers, is currently accepting submissions for several competitive Emerging Writer Fellowships. Emerging Writer Fellows will be selected from applicants who have published up to 2 book-length works of prose and up to 3 book-length works of
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