Site Review: Trish Hopkinson

Site Review: Trish Hopkinson

The Un-“Selfish Poet” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Blogger and poet Trish Hopkinson immediately sets the spunky and erudite tone for her site with the subheading: “The Selfish Poet.” This head-on foray into the world of semi-promotional, semi-informational poet websites is both witty and refreshing in its honesty. Hopkinson does devote half of her site (2/4…

WTP Writer: Jacqueline Crooks

WTP Writer: Jacqueline Crooks

Short-story author and novelist Jacqueline Crooks Looking Back on 2016 Interview by Jo Ely, Contributing Editor Jacqueline Crooks is a Jamaican-born, British short-story writer whose main subjects are migration and Caribbean subcultures. Crooks is A Wasafiri Prize runner-up, and the first chapter of her novel Fire Rush was published by Granta (WW15, the Anthology of New Writing,…

Review: Annie Dillard’s Living By Fiction

Review: Annie Dillard’s Living By Fiction

Traditional vs. Modernist approaches, Fine vs. Plain prose styles By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor LIVING BY FICTION by Annie Dillard. Harper Perennial. 192 pages. The cultural assumption is that the novel is the proper home of significance and that nonfiction is mere journalism. This is interesting because it means that in two centuries our assumptions have…

Site Review: VIDA Women in Literary Arts

Site Review: VIDA Women in Literary Arts

A Literary Watchdog by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor In the online literary arena, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts stands apart. Many literary websites promote individual artists, curate resources for writers, or are literary journals. VIDA, however, takes on the unique role of watchdog for gender equity in literary publication. The VIDA Count, which the site…

Book Review: Know Thyself

Book Review: Know Thyself

“A poet writes to continue asking questions” By Ruth Lepson, poet-in-residence at New England Conservatory of Music It takes nerve to write homophonic renderings of Shakespeare’s sonnets, yet that’s exactly what Joyce Peseroff has done in one section of her well-crafted, complex recent book of poems: Like a granite island quarried to oblivion, her husband’s memory…

Featured Bookmarks: The Literary

Featured Bookmarks: The Literary

January 2017 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. The Nervous Breakdown Brad Listi, based in Los Angeles, is the founding editor and creator of The Nervous Breakdown (TNB), an influential, informative, and engaging…

Site Review: Devise Literary

Site Review: Devise Literary

An Emerging Website by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Devise Literary, a site spearheaded by emerging fiction writers Alexandra Stanislaw and Drew Wade, originally began as “a way to gather resources for writers.” However, since its initiation in 2015, the site has already evolved to include a seasonal literary magazine open to creative work and literary…

WTP Writer: Charlotte Holmes

WTP Writer: Charlotte Holmes

Into the Grass Labyrinth Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Charlotte Holmes is a writer, a poet, and a teacher of creative writing. Her first book, Gifts and Other Stories, was published in 1994. Published by BkMk Press in 2016, her new collection of stories, The Grass Labyrinth, has been hailed as “a contemporary classic.” Holmes received…

Eye on the Indies

Eye on the Indies

A  Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Book Review Editor Book: Where’s the Moon?: A Memoir of the Space Coast & the Florida Dream College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, November 2, 2016 ($26.00 paperback, 224 pages, 29 B&W photos, index). ISBN 978-1-62349-450-6 Author: Ann McCutchan Ann McCutchan is an essayist and journalist…