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Makes School Visits, Gives Workshops, And More!
Meredith Sue Willis Will Visit Your Book Club if You Read her Books!
If you are within commuting distance of MSW, she'll happily visit your group to take questions, talk about her books, or just listen. If you live farther than commuting distance, get in touch with her about a conference phone call or email chat. Email her at Meredithsuewillis@gmail.com. To learn more about her books, visit the book page.
School Visits with Meredith Sue Willis
Latest Book for Children :
Billie of Fish House Lane
Books for Kids and About Writing
Special Page for Kids
Special Page for Teens
Online Reading for Readers and Writers
The Late and Great: Favorite writers and activists
Quotations by Writers On Writing
Some Questions and Answers for Writers
Manuscript Consultations with Meredith Sue Willis
Blog on literature, the web, and the rest of the digital world.
Latest news about MSW-- commentary on her work and more
Upcoming MSW Appearances
Read More Small Press Books !
Obituaries, mostly of writers but a few other good people too.
A Selection of classic and contemporary short stories to read on the web
A selection of Norman Julian's "The Writing Life" columns from the Morgantown Dominion-Post. Also, see his on Homer Hickam on Mountainlit.
Quotations about Writing
NYTimes article about a Pulitzer Prize winning novel from a small press that they (the Times failed to review): Tinkers.
Article in the NYTimes on the Brain Reading?Blog entry on how we are about to read-- and publish.
Article "Apply Film Techniques to Fiction Writing" is in the April 2010 print issue of The Writer magazine. A sample from the article is free online here. You may have to register for the site, but there is no charge.
"Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips," MSW's article, has received the 2009 Appalachian Heritage Magazine Plattner Award in non-fiction from Appalachian Heritage
Updated: List of small and indie books and presses to look into.
Issue #20 of The Hamilton Stone Review : Poetry! Creative nonfiction! Stories and novel excerpts! Poetry by Matthew DeBord, Elizabeth Dodd, Steve Ely, Susan Firer, Jeff Gundy, James Hazard, Jane Hilberry, Christine Holland, George Kalamaras, Karen Kovacik, Mercedes Lawry, Alison Luterman, David Mason, Christine Rhein, Elaine Sexton, Sean Singer, Joe Somoza, Bert Stern, Richard Stolorow, Chase Twichell, Mark Young, and Harriet Zinnes; Fiction by Jack Dowling, Beverly Gologorsky, Sybil Kollar, Jocelyn Lieu, and Miguel Antonio Ortiz; Nonfiction by Sherisse Alvarez, CL Bledsoe, Clyde L. Borg, Chris Echaurre, Christina Holzhauser, Randall Horton, Ingrid Hughes, Jim McGarrah, Meg Morley, and Peter Stensen.The Authors' Guild on the Google Book Scan Issue
Books for Readers Commemoration of the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins
Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond leave the Woolworth store after the first sit-in on February 1, 1960.From The Guardian online: Elmore Leonard’s funny rules of writing, plus those of Margaret Atwood and others:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-oneCheck out a literary agent's survey on readers anad e-readers.
Frequently Asked Questions about Writing
Management for Writers
Articles That Might Interest You: Should you hire a book doctor? And many more...
Recent Publication: Short Story "My Most Embarrassing" Online at Two Hawks Quarterly
Bloodroot Literary Magazinehas a reading series for people they publish.
Book List: Books and Articles about Columbia University and the Late Nineteen-Sixties
Fiction Matters website
On the Google book scanning project
A literary agent's advice: Should You Hire a Book Doctor?
Lucy Writes a Novel: Classic T.V. from I Love Lucy
Raymond Carver's Grave; Chuck Kinder as a Teacher-- Dory Adams' blog
Dory Adams on Walker Evans and Maggie Anderson
Do you have a young friend who needs help writing college essays? Check out this article.
Hemingway's last book
"Transparency is the new Objectivity"
Self-editing
Youtube interview of Irene McKinney, West Virginia's poet laureate. by Kate Long.
Youtube interview of Jayne Anne Phillips
An article on What Young Agents Want from Poets & Writers Magazine
Five Things the Publishing Industry needs to do now!
Funny scholarly article by Jerry Leath Mills on Dead Mules: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/v006/6.4mills.html
Here's an interesting 1986 article in the New York Times in which Christopher Lehmann-Haupt defines the e 4 Literary Fallacies:Pathetic, Imitative, Intentional, and Affective
What is a Kindle? My brother-in-law explains on NPR
“How to Mark a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D. is a wonderful and wonderfully old-fashioned essay about books as physical objects versus books as interactive communications. Adler compares books to the scores of musical works--the music happens in the performance, and the book really “happens” in the responsive reader’s interaction with it. I think there is probably some relationship here to the swirling controversies over ownership of creative works and new technologies.
A site for buying and publishing digital books: Smashbooks.com
Some model novels (and a few memoirs) recommended by members of my Advanced Novel Workshop class at NYU' SCPS
Piece by Marion Cuba on Self-Publishing
Suzanne McConnell on Kurt Vonnegut as a teacher -- scroll down when you get there (this is the September 2007 page).
Article about digital versus conventional publishing
Check out Duotrope.com/, an often-updated service listing markets by category.
The Rutgers-Newark Master of Fine Arts Program is now accepting applications in Fiction, Nonfiction or Poetry. See their website at http://www.mfa.newark.rutgers.edu/index.htm).
Faculty include Jayne Anne Phillips, Rigoberto Gonzalez, and Tayari Jones.Check out these writers' Websites
Site for learning about legitimate poetry contests at Winning Writers. Click here to learn about some not-so-legitimate ones--Winning Writers also has a contests-to-avoid page.Deadlines for writing contests at Poets & Writers.
If you don't have a web presence yet, you really ought to. To get your feet wet, you might try one of the free (meaning with ads) webpages at places like Geocities Yahoo. Click here to see one that I set up in about 5 minutes. I don't like it, but it is REALLY quick and REALLY easy to do. If you can fill in info and buy stuff on the web, you can do this. Also consider buying the domain name with your name--thus, I own .meredithsuewillis.com. You can get these at several places, including www.domainbank.com .
Article by David Weinberger about publishing with Lulu.com.
Video of David Weinberger explaining the Internet to the Germans!
New York Times Article on E-mail behavior
Support small presses and the future of literature!
Bookworm Magazine -- For the Young Writers in your life
Notes on some of my favorite writers
Writing Hints
Places That Publish Writing by Teens
Writing Exercises for Kids!
Calendar of readings in New York City at http://www.poetz.com/calendar/index.htm
The Ethical Culture Review of Books
Latest issue of The Hamilton Stone Review
Adam Sexton's excellent book MASTER CLASS IN FICTION WRITING: LESSONS FROM AUSTEN, HEMINGWAY AND OTHERS is now available.You can find it at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
A Book I'm very excited about.: Forever After about teachers and teaching after 9/11. Click here.
A teacher named Jeanette Stricklen has a piece on Ron Pramschufer's website “Writers—Beware of Subsidy Publishers, Vanity Publishers, and Poetry Websites ." It’s an interesting personal experience, straightforward, although at the end Ms. Stricklen does give a plug to Mr. Pramshufer’s business, Self-Publishing.com . She seems to feel that iUniverse and Authorhouse and the others pretend to be publishers while Mr. P. represents honest old fashioned self-publishing. This may simply be her increasing sophistication. At any rate, it’s worth taking a look at.
Review of Keith Maillard's tetralogy.
Neat New Website for Lee Maynard: Take a Look
Holiday Piece from Cat Pleska-- With Jingle Bell Rock!
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 Opus 111 (Movement 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNre5yWlL4
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Various Articles and Web Sites
Article on Print on Demand in the Economist.
Check out a literary agent's survey on readers anad e-readers.
Frequently Asked Questions about Writing
Management for Writers
Articles That Might Interest You: Should you hire a book doctor? And many more...
Recent Publication: Short Story
"My Most Embarrassing"
Online at Two Hawks QuarterlyBloodroot Literary Magazinehas a reading series for people they publish.
MSW's article on Jayne Anne Phillips in Appalachian Heritage
Book List: Books and Articles about Columbia University and the Late Nineteen-Sixties
Fiction Matters website
On the Google book scanning project
A literary agent's advice: Should You Hire a Book Doctor?
Lucy Writes a Novel: Classic T.V. from I Love Lucy
Raymond Carver's Grave; Chuck Kinder as a Teacher-- Dory Adams' blog
Dory Adams on Walker Evans and Maggie Anderson
Do you have a young friend who needs help writing college essays? Check out this article.
Hemingway's last book
"Transparency is the new Objectivity"
Self-editing
Kate Long interviews Irene McKinney, West Virginia's poet laureate, on Youtube.
Article on What Young Agents Want from Poets & Writers Magazine
There are many excellent small literary magazines to read in hard copy and online. Bloodroot Literary Magazine , for example, has my story "Tara White." Read an excerpt here.
More things to Read
What is a Kindle? My brother-in-law explains on NPR
How to Mark a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
Worst Query Letter Ever
Resources for Writers
Page for Teens
Articles. essays & web sites on books and writers
News about MSW and upcoming appearances
The Ethical Culture Review of Books
The Hamilton Stone Review All-West Virginia Issue
Poems Online
October poem by Barbara Crooker
Poem by Phyllis Moore
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Click on the Book or here.Re-visions: Stories from Stories is a collection of spin-offs from myth, fiction, and the Bible. From a new look at Adam and Eve and why they left the Garden to a grown-up Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the confessions of SaintAugustine's concubine- each story offers a gloss on the original as well as insights into how we canlive today.
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