Tag Archive | Nonfiction
New Places to Submit Your Writing
Originally posted on COW PASTURE CHRONICLES:
It’s coming up on the end of the year and most of us are busy getting ready for the fast appraoching holidays. But, if you’re like me you have a stack of file of short stories or even essays that have been sitting there gathering dust. Well, here’s your…
New Tolkien: The Man Who Made Middle Earth
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
The world is soon going to learn a little more about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The Bodleian Library of Oxford University is publishing a biography of Tolkien called Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth as well as holding a major exhibit on the man in 2018. The…
A Book for Why People Do Evil
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
The current wave of antisemitism in the United States, the destroyed cemeteries, the threats, has made me think more about why it is that people do horrible things. This isn’t a new train of thought for me. Sometime between working with libraries and finding a position in the publishing industry,…
Contest: Writer in Residence at the Mall of America
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
I just found a crazy opportunity for writers. The Mall of America, the largest mall in the United States, is having its 25th anniversary. To celebrate, the Mall is looking for a writer in residence to capture the spirit of the space. The chosen writer will spend four days in…
The Ghosts in Our Walls: History and Tales from the Haunted South
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
There are ghosts in the walls of old houses. They roam abandoned plantations. They float down the side streets of southern cities on sticky, sultry summer nights. That is what the dark tourism industry would have us believe at any rate. Dark tourism is travel that is steeped in suffering of…
The Curse of the Book Eater
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Sometimes when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls you can still hear him munching on new releases and snarling when someone steps too close to his pulp fiction. My childhood dog was an avid reader, which is to say that he liked that I read because he…
Authors Reading Their Own Writing
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
There is something remarkable about hearing authors read their own works aloud. Often they emphasize words that are unexpected, or they add extra shades of meaning to the phrases. With all of today’s modern connectivity, it is easy to hear authors read their works even if the listener can’t afford…
Newbery, Caldecott, and More: The American Library Association’s 2017 Midwinter Meeting
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Groups of crows are a called a murder. Groups of alligators, a congregation. And groups of cobras, a quiver. I’ve often thought that librarians should have their own group name as well. Perhaps they could take their title from starlings and become a murmuration, or maybe they could borrow from wombats and…
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