Image by Gorthian, via Wikimedia Commons Though it’s sometimes regarded as a pretentious-sounding term for genre writers who don’t want to associate with genre, I’ve always liked the phrase “speculative...
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My longtime girlfriend is a longtime bookseller. Her relationship with bookselling predates ours three times over. It is a surprisingly taxing career path—one that asks of the body, and of...
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An award winning children's book illustrator says literary workshops are helping writers and artists in regional Australia to further their careers.Lucia Masciullo, who illustrated the children's book 'Come down, cat',...
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The Laura Riding Jackson Foundation is opening its Adult Writing Series in killer fashion Nov. 12 with a Florida-based mystery writer and Agatha Award winner, Elaine Viets. Viets, who lives in...
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Photo: Bryan Tarnowski/Bryan Tarnowski Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does...
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Hear a message about upcoming special events from Faculty Director Al Filreis. New article about Wes Matthews We here at 3805 Locust Walk are thrilled about a recent article describing...
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The American thriller writer has published 35 books and sold 80 million copies in 46 languages since his debut, Play Dead, almost 30 years ago. Nine of his page-turners have...
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The next Percy Jackson adventure, WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS, now has cover art, as first revealed by The Hollywood Reporter. The book will be published in North America and...
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A 68-year-old man who was rejected by the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, claiming he was discriminated against because of his...
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Last spring, a dozen members of the Worker Writers School workshopped a poem titled “Instruction Manual.” The group meets monthly from September to May in the offices of PEN America,...
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