Insights from Judging a Writing Contest
I just wrapped up serving as one of the judges in the Hemingway Shorts contest sponsored by the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, and I thought I'd share some of [...]
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Jun, 2016
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Jul, 2013
A Lesson in Submitting
...or: How I got published in the Wall Street Journal. I'm a guest at my friend Nancy Kopp's blog today, so please head on over to discover her blog and [...]
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May, 2013
Patience, A Writer Must Have
Patience, the trees seem to say, we're not ready to be green yet. My kids have been into Yoda lately, thus my inverted title, but I really feel that Yoda's [...]
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Apr, 2013
The Many Lives of a Story
Today I bring you what I think is a most inspiring post: My longtime student Diane Hurles has shared here before how she managed to find her voice as a memoir [...]
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Feb, 2013
Some End-of-the-Month Submission Opportunities
I haven't written much about submitting work to literary magazines lately, mainly because I've been slacking off in that department. But yesterday I got back in submissions mode and came [...]
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Feb, 2013
That Satisfying Plop of the Mail Box
Today I mailed off two photos to the Starved Rock Photo Contest. Sounds straightforward, but it was quite a production. First, photos could not be submitted electronically. Rather, you had [...]
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Oct, 2012
How to Submit your Writing to Literary Magazines
Every so often, when my students' work reaches the stage where workshop participants say, "You should send this out," the initial joy turns into bafflement: How do I actually do [...]
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Jun, 2012
Literary Magazine Layout
The past few days I've become obsessed with creating a book in blurb, as I am handling the layout of the literary magazine my son's school is publishing. It's been [...]
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Oct, 2011
Blog Mash Up: Submission Opportunities, Interesting Insights and Memoirs
Tracks in the snow on our cabin's deck this morning... While I've been trying not to freeze (see photo) at the writers conference I'm attending in northern Virginia where it [...]
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Oct, 2011
Write Your Story and Publish It: One of my Students Shares her Journey
A story might catch you unaware but if you stick with it, it might lead somewhere! Congratulations to my longtime student Diane Hurles who stuck with her story through many rewrites [...]
