Friday Find: "How to Create a Simple Writer Blog"

For those of you who have not yet created a blog, today's your lucky day! Peta Jinnath Andersen provides some truly excellent tips on getting one started. I wish I'd seen a post like this before I started mine!

Which raises a question I've considered asking here before: Have any of you transferred a blog from Blogger to Wordpress, and if so, what advice do you have?

Thanks, and enjoy the weekend. See you back here on Monday. (Can't believe it will be March!)

Book Reviewing is NOT the Same as Sitting on the Couch Watching Bad TV

Earlier this week, Jason Boog reported on Arianna Huffington's keynote speech at the "Tools of Change" conference. As I read the summary, I thought: Hey, Arianna! I'm with you! Especially when I read: "Huffington also explored the idea behind The Huffington Post books section, rejecting 'this magical pub date'-- the traditional time-period for scheduling book reviews and running book tours. 'Forget about it--the idea that you have three weeks between pub date and oblivion. It doesn't have to be like that,' she said, earning a smattering of applause." (A smattering of applause? I should think she would have received a standing ovation, at least from the writers and publishing professionals in the room.)

Anyway, as I say, I was with her--until I read this:

"Finally, she addressed the perennial criticism that many writers on the site don't get paid. 'Self expression is the new entertainment,' she explained. 'We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, 'Why are they doing that for free?' We need to celebrate that moment rather than question it.'"

(Spoken like someone who might have both a huge divorce settlement AND a slew of advertisers and may not exactly depend on income generated by her own writing to pay her bills.)

Now, it may surprise some of you to learn that I'm just as capable of sitting on the couch for seven hours (when I have seven hours to spare) watching bad TV as the next person. (While I'm in confession mode, I may as well tell you that last weekend my sister and I went to see Kathy Griffin perform here New York. She--Kathy Griffin-- was hilarious. There. By the way, if you don't watch television, don't bother going to see Kathy Griffin. Whenever she's not imitating her mother, she's talking about various reality shows and "characters. Or Anderson Cooper. Or Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.)

But I digress.

When I write, the "entertainment" factor differs significantly from what results when I stare at my TV. Any "entertainment" that comes from reviewing, for instance, is pure pleasure from the work, satisfaction from reading a book I (hopefully) want to tell others about (for that matter, reading it at least twice), thinking about that book, rechecking everything from the list price to the page count, and writing and crafting a text that will make sense and perhaps even resonate with readers. It's work. It may be absorbing, self-expressive, and even entertaining work. But even if we choose not to be paid for it--as we might when writing for a particular cause/organization--it's still work.

It's not sitting on a couch watching bad TV.

The Wednesday Web Browser

Kim Wright shares some authorial anxiety as the pub date nears for her first novel (check out a book excerpt, too). Look forward to an interview with Kim later this spring in The Practicing Writer.
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Coming soon: London's Jewish Book Week. Andrew Sanger offers a preview.
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Writer Tia Nevitt reveals "7 Things I've Learned So Far."
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Chris Wilson wonders, "Can New Yorker Poets Write About Anything Besides Poetry?" (via The Elegant Variation)
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Considering teaching (or, for that matter, studying) writing online? Spend some time with Todd Gilman's article on "Combating Myths About Distance Education."
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Congratulations to Kevin Haworth on his latest literary award.
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Something for my fellow Francophiles (and Ile-de-France-based blog readers): Laurel Zuckerman's Paris Writers News (via Writer Abroad).

Quotation of the Week: Your Turn!

I thought it might be fun this week to open the blog for YOUR submissions of notable quotations from writers/on writing. Comment away! Thanks in advance for participating!

Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

"To mark European Week Against Racism the Social Inclusion Unit, South Dublin County Council, will hold a competition which aims to combat racism and to celebrate culture diversity of people living in Ireland today. Everybody can participate...by conveying your personal message against racism through a submission of writing (poetry/prose) maximum 500 words." Cash prizes for three winners and six runners-up. No entry fee. Deadline: March 19, 2010.
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The OpEd Project runs a "Write to Change the World" seminar (the focus of which is on women). "We are committed to making The OpEd Project programs affordable for any woman who is committed to changing the world with her voice. To that end, we provide full and partial scholarships for up to 40% of participants in any seminar." Does not appear to require an application fee. Seminars are currently scheduled for Boston, Los Angeles, San Fancisco, and New York City.
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And still more scholarship news, from The Glen Workshop (affiliated with Image, a journal focused on "art-faith-mystery"): "a limited number of partial scholarships will be available, to be awarded based on both need and quality of work. You may apply to any class, even if it's closed for registration (see the course descriptions page). However, if you wish to guarantee a spot in a workshop, even if you do not win a scholarship, you must register for an available workshop and pay the $100 deposit." Application deadline is March 15, 2010.
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"The Consortium for Science Policy & Outcomes (CSPO) at Arizona State University is presenting an intensive two-day workshop, followed by participation in CSPO's conference 'The Rightful Place of Science?', for the 'next genreation' of writers with an interest in science and technology. Selected participants will learn creative nonfiction techniques, consult with editors of major magazines and pair with a 'next generation' science and technology policy scholar. The goal of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for the scholars and writers to work together to publish their work in a mainstream magazine or to develop a book or film proposal." The workshop and conference are scheduled for May 2010. "Those selected will receive an honorarium and travel expenses to attend the two-day workshop and three-day conference...." There is no application fee indicated. Deadline: March 15, 2010. (via the Creative Nonfiction newsletter)
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The Wordsworth Trust (U.K.) "is seeking a new Poet in Residence, to run for 9 months from July 2010 to end March 2011....This Residency offers an invaluable opportunity for a published poet, from any cultural background and writing within any literary tradition, to spend time in Grasmere, Cumbria, in the heart of the Lake District, an area of outstanding natural beauty that so much inspired William Wordsworth. The poet will be given space to develop their own work and will also take part in the Wordsworth Trust Literature Programme and the wider cultural life of Cumbria. The Poet in Residence will be paid a monthly stipend of £1000.00 and provided with a cottage for which they will be charged a subsidised rent." Application deadline is March 5. No application fee is mentioned.
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The University of Delaware seeks a Senior News Editor, the University of Texas-Arlington is looking for a Media Relations Officer, and the University of Chicago welcomes applications for a Writer/Project Manager.
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Our March Practicing Writer newsletter will go out to subscribers next weekend. Don't miss it!

Friday Find: James Plath's 21 Tips to Get Out of the Slush Pile

Today's find is, in some ways, a useful follow-up to yesterday's post. Allow me to present James Plath's "21 Tips to Get Out of the Slush Pile." You can bet that I'll be referring to this fiction-focused list as I continue to revise my previously-rejected story.

Enjoy, and have a great weekend. See you back here on Monday morning!

What Does "Submission-Ready" Mean to You?

"Working on a story. Am determined to get it submission-ready!"

So read a post I "tweeted" on Monday. Lo and behold, somebody actually read what I wrote. And she wrote, in turn:

"@erikadreifus what does submission-ready mean to you?"

What an excellent question. Not just for me, but for all of us practicing writers.

My response on Twitter basically said that I couldn't possibly address the question in 140 characters. I promised to do so here, instead.

So here's what I think "submission-ready" means to me: I think it means that I've brought the work in question to a point where I can't envision further edits/changes/improvements. At least, not imminently. And I believe that an editor/agent/publisher will read past the first few lines/pages and take the work seriously.

Now, it does happen that I submit a story or essay or poem (or novel or short story collection), receive a series of rejections (the best ones provide some constructive comments/feedback), and am then prompted to revisit the work. I might ask others who haven't yet shared their time and insights to read and comment, too. Although I won't necessarily withdraw the work from any journal/contest/agent/publisher where it might still be waiting to be read/decided on, I'll refrain from submitting it anywhere else until I've had time to consider changes and, more often than not, revise further. In this sense, "submission-ready" is not a constant. It evolves. Because, unfortunately, what I might consider initially "submission-ready" may not necessarily be "acceptance-ready"! In fact, the story that sparked my tweet is one I believed "submission-ready" quite awhile ago, but am revising once again.

I'm eager to hear from others on this. What does "submission-ready" mean to you?

The Wednesday Web Browser

In her latest Chronicle essay, Rachel Toor writes about the habit of writing. Warning: Prepare to feel chastised if you aren't a)writing and b)exercising as much as you should/want to be.
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I've been out of college almost 20 years, but I still enjoy reading the main campus newspaper (and thanks to the Internet, it's easy for me to do so!). Here's a story--about a "budding freshman author" named Noni D. Carter--that makes such visits to the newspaper's site even more meaningful.
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Midge Raymond reports on her recent trip to the Southern California Writers' Conference and what she heard there.
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Another useful nuts-and-bolts column from "After Deadline."

Quotation of the Week: Peter Carey, Interviewed by Gabriel Packard

As a fiction writer, I've never been especially inspired by characters. I know that that sounds awful. I simply don't write "character-driven" fiction, and, much to my discontent, I don't ever find myself "possessed" by a character who simply begs to have his or her story told. When I'm lucky enough to find inspiration for a story, it generally comes from ideas and/or circumstances.

Which is one reason why I was captivated by Gabriel Packard's interview with Peter Carey in the new (March) issue of The Writer. Here's some of Carey's response to Packard's question, "What is the process of writing a novel like for you?":

"When I've finished a novel, I always feel so empty I think I'll never have another idea. So when I have an idea, a single idea, I feel blessed....I'll never ever start with characters. They are there to be discovered. Indeed the greatest pleasure, at the end of the novel, is to have made characters who are multidimensional and complicated."

Ah, there's the rub. You still need to come up with characters who are multidimensional and complicated! The ideas alone can't sustain the fiction!

P.S. Carey's new novel, Parrot & Olivier in America, sounds fantastic (and I'm not just saying that because I have a doctoral degree in modern French history and once took an entire class on Alexis de Tocqueville!). It goes to the top of my tbr list.

Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

From the Arvon Foundation (U.K.): "An anonymous writer, who has benefitted from several Arvon courses, would like to enable others to have the same experience. The donor will provide a yearly amount which will enable one person working in the voluntary sector to attend an Arvon writing course for a greatly reduced fee. To apply you must currently volunteer either full or part time within a charity or voluntary organisation." There is no application fee, and applications are due by March 1, 2010.
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"The American Prospect's Writing Fellows Program offers journalists at the beginning of their career the opportunity to spend two full years at the magazine in Washington, D.C., actively developing their journalistic skills. Each fellow will write a minimum of three to four full-length feature articles. Fellows will also regularly write shorter, online pieces and blog daily....We are seeking candidates who are opinionated and comfortable generating article ideas rather than relying on assignments. A passion for blogging is appreciated." No application fee. Deadline: April 1, 2010.
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Latest call for submissions from WOW! Women on Writing:

"WOW! is seeking submissions for their upcoming themes:

May '10 Book to Film: (Deadline for queries/subs: March 15, 2010).
The majority of films are made from books these days, so using this as a basic premise, we are dedicating May's issue to all things related to words and pictures.

Here are some topic ideas for articles/interviews:
- Interviews with authors of books that were made into films.
- Interviews with screenwriters who crafted a screenplay from a book.
- How to write a screenplay--I know, big topic, but we can start with the basic structural differences of novel writing vs. screenwriting and share some tips for screenwriting.
- Basics of writing a TV pilot.
- How a book gets optioned for a film: how does it happen, what steps are involved, including quotes from experts.
- The YouTube phenomena: how to effectively use YouTube as an author or freelance writer, how to make money from YouTube, etc.

Fiction Mechanics/Novelist's Tool Kit: (Deadline for queries/subs: April 15, 2010)
Last month, when I was putting together the links at the bottom of Beth Cato's fabulous article Beginning After NaNoWriMo, I noticed that we were short on articles that covered the mechanics of fiction. I'd love to see comprehensive articles on all the tools novelists need to have in their toolbox for working on their novels. Here are some basic topics: (Note: this is an all "how to" issue, no interviews.)

- Plot & Structure
- Scenes
- Description & Setting
- Pacing
- Voice
(Note: we already have articles on: dialogue tags, self-editing for fiction writers, and beginnings/middles/ends.)"

General submission guidelines/pay rates here.
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Goddard College (Vt.) seeks part-time, temporary faculty for its BFA in Creative Writing program. "We seek faculty who are published writers committed to excellence in their craft and the development of individual voice. Our students work closely with their faculty advisors during each residency to plan the work of the semester. Our faculty continue this supportive and sustaining mentorship throughout the semester, and the students benefit from the experience, insights, and critical feedback of their advisors. BFA faculty members are cross-listed in the Individualized BA program at Goddard; applicants must, therefore, be prepared to respond to student work in at least two areas of liberal arts study in addition to creative writing. Interested applicants are urged to explore the Goddard BFA-CW and IBA programs on the Goddard web site before applying."
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Ploughshares is looking for a managing editor. And the Edinburgh International Book Festival seeks temporary staff.

Friday Find: Eight Good Things for Writers to Bring Abroad

I am definitely ensconced in my New York life, but everyone once in awhile I admit that I fantasize about absconding to Paris, where I've had the great good fortune to spend some chunks of time in the past, or maybe to another distant locale or two. So I was happy to discover a new blog this week called Writer Abroad (maintained by Chantal Panozzo), and for today's find I'm going to point you to two posts summing up "Eight Good Things for Writers to Bring Abroad. (By the way, I discovered Writer Abroad via a new feature on the Guide to Literary Agents blog, Seven Things I've Learned So Far.)

Have a great weekend, everyone! See you back here on Monday!

From My Bookshelf: Recent Reads

It seems as though it has been quite some time since I've written up a "From My Bookshelf" post. So let me fill you in on some of my notable recent reads, leaving aside titles I've been reading for review assignments and feel that I should not disclose prior to the reviews being completed/published (how do other reviewers approach this, btw?).

LIT: Many months ago, I attended a reading at Hunter College featuring Mary Karr. Karr is a writer I've admired for a long time, but I'd never had the chance to see/hear her read in person. WOW. What an amazing presence. That evening, she read from her then-forthcoming third memoir, Lit. I knew right away that I'd want to read Lit as soon as it came out. It took me a little while, but I did get to read it last month. It was terrific, especially for someone with varying levels of degrees of familiarity with the "scenes" of low-residency MFA study, Cambridge/Boston, and literary awards. Intrigued? Check out Francine Prose's reliably smart take on Lit here.

THE HELP: Remember last week's link to Michael Copperman's Luna Park post on "authenticity"? Particularly if such questions interest you, you'll want to take a look at Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help. Chances are, even if you haven't read it, you've heard about it. Here's a snippet from a November 2009 Motoko Rich/New York Times article to refresh your memory:

'The Help,' a novel about the relationships between African-American maids and their white employers in 1960s Mississippi, has the classic elements of a crowd pleaser: it features several feisty women enmeshed in a page-turning plot, clear villains and a bit of a history lesson.

The book, a debut novel by Kathryn Stockett, also comes with a back story that is a publishing dream come true: at first rejected by nearly 50 agents, the manuscript was scooped up by an imprint of Penguin and pushed aggressively to booksellers, who fell in love with it. Since it came out in February, 'The Help' has been embraced by book clubs and bloggers who can’t stop recommending it to their friends.

By the way, The Help, too, features writing and publishing within its narrative. Very much so. Which surely contributed to my engagement with it.

GRINGA: A third book I've had the pleasure to read lately is Melissa Hart's memoir, Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood. Although Hart and I have never met, we're both contributing editors for The Writer magazine, and I'd seen Gringa mentioned in her bio notes. I'm delighted to have had the opportunity to read her new book, which she'll be talking about in an interview featured in the March issue of The Practicing Writer. I don't want to say too much about Hart or her book quite yet, but you can of course learn more on your own.

And what am I reading right now? Currently, I'm a little more than 100 pages into Chris Bohjalian's Skeletons at the Feast, a novel which will be the focus of the next Jewish Book Council Twitter Book Club "Twunch and Talk" on February 25. Perhaps you'll join me there?

The Wednesday Web Browser

The New York Times, or more specifically, Elisabeth Bumiller, takes note of the war literature emanating from Iraq and Afghanistan. (Not much fiction. What might that signify?)
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Mark Sarvas recently served as a judge for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, and is ready to share some of what he learned from the experience.
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Dani Shapiro reflects on "the new bottom line" for (would-be) writers: "The emphasis is on publishing, not on creating. On being a writer, not on writing itself." (via One Story)

Quotation of the Week: Donald Barthelme (via Philip Graham)

"I remember [Donald Barthelme] urging me during one conference to consider writing a novel—probably because at the time I mainly wrote prose poems that barely extended into the territory of the short story, and Don always liked to mix things up a bit. The very idea, though, alarmed me. I couldn’t imagine ever writing any single thing that continued into hundreds of pages, and my squeaky timid protest to Don’s suggestion was, “I wouldn’t know where to begin.”

His response surprised me. “Whenever I begin a novel,” he said, “the beginning never stays at the beginning. It ends up in the middle, or near the end. It never stays put where I started."

I’d always assumed that one began a novel by starting on page one and slogging through to the last sentence, so this revelation served as some relief to me, and made the task of writing a novel appear a little more approachable. Still, I don’t think I fully understood him until I began, years later, to work on my first novel, and found myself putting together its different sections like pieces of a puzzle that had as yet no defined borders, while trying to discover and answer my own secret twenty questions.

Source: Philip Graham, "Any Novel's Negative Twenty Questions"

Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

"Five Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships in the amount of $15,000 will be awarded to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry." Applicants must be U.S. citizens, between the ages of 21 and 31 as of March 31, 2010 (which is the application deadline). No application fee indicated.
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Laura Yeager's excellent WritersWeekly.com article provides leads on several paying venues for writing on issues of disability and mental health.
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"The Other Journal, an online quarterly that promotes discourse at the intersections of theology and culture, seeks a creative writing editor....The creative writing editor will solicit and edit poetry, short stories, personal essays, and interviews for the creative writing section of the journal....The time required for this position will vary according to the publication schedule of the journal and the personal schedule of the applicant, but the position may require an average of between five and fifteen hours a week. In addition to his or her duties for the creative writing section of the journal, the creative writing editor will also be expected to attend regularly scheduled meetings (telephone conferencing is OK), contribute to the overall vision of the journal, and participate in email communications with the editorial team, especially the managing editor." Pays: "The creative writing editor will receive a small stipend for each issue." (via ImageUpdate)
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The Shine Journal's annual "Let's See Your Shorts" flash fiction contest (1000 words) is open for submissions until March 1, 2010, 6:00 a.m. EST. There is no entry fee, and there will be cash prizes: $100/$50/$25. (via Pam Casto's Flash Fiction Flash newsletter)
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"The Hosking Houses Trust [U.K.] is seeking to appoint one or more writers for its twelfth arts residency. The appointment is for a minimum of two months and a maximum of one year and applications are now invited. The appointment is restricted to women aged forty or more. The appointee must write in English and have the legal right to be in the UK. It is required that the appointee has a contract for publication or performance of the intended work. The appointee is expected to have published significant work on any subject, or to have worked, broadcasted, taught, lectured or acted extensively in the English language. This Residency is for a woman who could use the opportunity to start or complete interesting or innovative work about any subject whatsoever (see below) that might otherwise be postponed, abandoned or take a long time to complete." Includes housing and a stipend. No application fee. Deadline: April 12, 2010.
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Champlain College (Vt.) seeks a Program Director of Professional Writing. "We are interested in candidates who have demonstrated success as a published professional writer, expertise in publishing trends and experience with managing a print-on-demand publishing operations. Candidates must also have a strong commitment to both teaching and student advising." Champlain College is also seeking an Assistant/Associate Professor of Professional Writing.
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Murray State University (Ky.) is looking for a Lecturer in Creative Writing (fiction).
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Wheelock College (Mass.) seeks a Marketing Communications Specialist/Writer, the New School (N.Y.) seeks a Senior Press Officer, and Miami-Dade College (Fla.) is looking for an Editorial Director.

Friday Finds: Top Writing Blogs

Whether you'll be snowed in this weekend or not, you may appreciate the opportunity to peruse some compilations of top writing blogs. I've recently learned that Practicing Writing appears on two such lists, Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs and Top 100 Blogs to Improve Your Writing in 2010. We're in some pretty impressive company, so I'm grateful and glad. Have a great weekend, and see you back here on Monday!

Titles as Prompts

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm once again enrolled in an online poetry class, and last week's lesson included material and assignments on titles. One assignment asked us to "Choose a title that already exists and then write a poem to match it." We were given a bunch of existing titles to consider. We were also encouraged to look up the original poet's version once we'd completed our own and see how the works compared.

So I thought I'd provide you with something of a twist. Here are the titles of some of my published poetry and prose. See if any of them spark any writing for you (I'd love to know if they do). I'm giving you titles only for works that can be located online, so please go ahead and look up the words that follow these titles if you're so inclined. Enjoy!

"For Services Rendered"

"Floating"

"Rio, 1946"

"Stars and Stripes—Forever"

"Vigilance"

"In Praise of Polyglossia"

"Solar Damage"

"Mannheim"

"Diaspora"

"American Love Sonnet"

The Wednesday Web Browser

I don't believe that I've mentioned yet that I'm currently taking another online poetry course (my fourth in the past few years). Last week's lesson focused partly on titles, so right now I have titles on the brain. Which is why I found these two title-oriented items particularly interesting (if fiction-oriented). First, Eric Puchner gives us a lively article complete with a list of titles to avoid. Next up: Nigel Farndale (thanks to Philip Graham for that one).
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Lisa Romeo reveals that she is a "bookless" writer. "That's right, I am a writer but I don't have a published book. It's not that my words have never appeared in a book; I've written for several published essay collections. But this, it appears, doesn't count. This is not my rule, but it is, more or less, the truth."
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Two particularly thought-provoking posts: First, Ellen Meeropol reflects on political fiction and asks for input. And over on Luna Park, Michael Copperman raises questions of authenticity.
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Finally, do check out The Writer magazine's redesigned Web site.

Quotation of the Week: Anne Enright

"The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book."

--Anne Enright
Q & A after a reading from The Gathering
Seattle Public Library, February 19, 2008

Source: Quoterly.net, "quotes to write by," a resource from Angela Jane Fountas

Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

"Established in 1999 and supported through a generous grant from the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers is among the very first of its kind to highlight new works by contemporary writers exploring Jewish themes. The prize spotlights promising new talent, and is awarded to an American fiction writer for a first or second full-length work that was published in the previous calendar year. Submissions must be made by the publisher. The award includes a prize of $2,500, as well as a one-week residency at Ledig House International Writers Colony in New York’s Hudson Valley." There is no entry fee. Deadline: March 1, 2010.
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"Oysters & Chocolate is now seeking submissions for our upcoming erotica anthology, to be published by Seal Press (2011)." Work must be previously unpublished. Pays: $100 plus two copies of the book. Deadline: March 15, 2010.
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The Guide to Literary Agents blog interviews agent B.J. Robbins, who seeks "quality fiction—both literary and commercial—and general nonfiction, with a particular interest in memoir, biography, narrative history, pop culture, sports, travel/adventure, medicine and health."
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As mentioned in the latest issue of The Practicing Writer, 'tis the season to apply for admission to the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Sozopol, Bulgaria. "An advanced discussion among writers of fiction in Bulgarian and English, this gathering hosts fiction writers from Bulgaria and from English-speaking countries, including but not limited to the U.S. and the U.K. All participants are selected on a competitive basis. For three intense days, the participating writers are given the opportunity to explore their craft through mutual exchange under the guidance of one English-speaking and one Bulgarian fiction writer. In addition to the morning workshops, the programme includes special guest lectures and informal roundtables on various issues from the lifecycle of the book, including how to work with agents, editors, translators, and publishers." English-language workshops are led by Elizabeth Kostova. The 2010 seminars will take place May 27-June 1. Participants receive scholarships covering tuition, room and board, in-country transportation, and 75% of international travel." There is no application fee. Deadline: March 15, 2010.
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Wayne State College (Neb.) is looking for an Instructor/Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. "Completed MFA or PhD required for appointment at rank of Assistant Professor; completed Masters degree required for appointment at rank of Instructor. Successful teaching experience and substantial publication record required. Four courses per semester divided among fiction and poetry workshops, literature, and composition. Advising and committee work as assigned. Responsibility for WSC Press, Plains Writers Series, poetry and fiction slams and undergraduate literary magazine. A strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and to developing collegial relationships with colleagues is expected."
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Lafayette College (Penn.) seeks an Alumni Communications Editor, East Carolina University (N.C.) is looking for a Public Communication Specialist, and the New York University School of Law seeks a Writer.