For more than twenty years Greg Kosmicki and a tireless crew of volunteers shaped the Backwaters Press into a well-known haven for poets and writers in Nebraska and beyond. Under Kosmicki the nonprofit press won several Nebraska Book Awards and publi

I first had the privilege of reading De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s writing eight years ago, when he was a student in my undergraduate creative writing seminar at Brooklyn College. “Your dialogue is filled with vitality, and through it your characters sp

POETS & WRITERS IS MORE than a magazine. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving creative writers. We pay fees to writers giving readings and leading workshops, provide information and advice to authors, and help them connect with one an

In her debut novel, The Travelers, a remarkable intergenerational and international saga, Regina Porter explores the lives of two characters—James Samuel Vincent, who escapes his parents’ volatile marriage and modest Irish American background, and Ag

Be it Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train, novels that feature violence toward women have dominated the thriller market in recent years, selling millions of copies and leading to major screen adapt

IF YOU want to learn about the business of books, it helps to be hungry. Not only hungry to learn, as the expression goes, but also just plain hungry, literally—it helps to have an appetite. Or an expense account. Ideally both. Because no matter how

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■ Avocado egg salad sandwich: mixed greens, crispy shallots■ Cobb salad: romaine, grape tomatoes, avocado, hardboiled eggs, blue cheese■ Cajun spiced nuts: garlic, rosemary■ Diet Coke, ginger ale MY FIRST full-time job in New York, after months of fr

■ Granny’s chopped salad: romaine, cucumber, avocado, tomato, feta, smoked salmon■ Smoked tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich■ Nishi Sencha tea, filter coffee I WAS warned that Taylor Street Baristas would be loud, and as I make my way through Gr

TALK to an agent long enough, over a good meal, and inevitably subjects will come up that are, shall we say, sensitive. As many of these agents reminded me, this is a business of relationships—one even said it’s a business of feelings—so there are st

Ocean Vuong made his literary debut in April 2016 with Night Sky With Exit Wounds, a poetry collection that chronicles a family’s journey as refugees from Vietnam to America, where the poems’ young speaker grows up attuned to the turmoil of his famil

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