Finding Truth in Fiction By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor In the late 1960s, I believed in pure fiction, and as a writer set out to imagine and portray the inner life of working-class characters in my father’s candy factory. I also kept a writer’s notebook on the side, where I vented and mulled about…
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Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
October 2018 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 Drum: A Literary Magazine For Your Ears An innovative, media-savvy enterprise begun in 2010 by novelist Henriette Power, now Henriette Lazaridis, The Drum beats…
Two Cosmopolitan Collections
Essay Collections in a Global Time By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor In the American Sixties, a writer’s “sense of place” usually referred to regionalism and immediately brought to mind Faulkner, Cather, and Frost. For English writers, the phrase suggested colonial displacements, such as E.M. Forster’s India or Joseph Conrad’s Congo. Since then, however, with…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
July 2018 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. Adam Scheffler The appeal of Adam Scheffler’s work is reflected by his appearances in scores of literary magazines and the selection of his first collection…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
May 2018 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. McSweeney’s Gen-Xer Dave Eggers began his editing/publishing career at age twenty-four with Might magazine (a satirical print bi-monthly, 1994–97), which he writes about at length in…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
April 2018 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. Every Writer This site seems designed for high school use, and for would-be horror writers. A tag for advertisers states that it has been on the…
Lessons Learned in a Literary Office
by Editor-in-Chief Sandra Tyler As The Woven Tale Press continues to evolve, it has captured the intrigue of new contributing editors, including DeWitt Henry, the founding editor of the award-winning literary journal Ploughshares. Back 30 years ago, while interning for him as an editorial assistant, I learned the hard lesson I went on to indoctrinate…