A Celebration of the Short Story

The J. Paul Getty Museum is pleased to present Selected Shorts, an annual spring series featuring actors from stage, screen, and television reading classic and new short fiction.  The series is produced by New York’s Symphony Space and hosted by Isaiah Sheffer.  The theme of the 2012 series is Objects of Desire, with readings by [...]

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Winter: A Dirge

The wintry west extends his blast, And hail and rain does blaw; Or, the stormy north sends driving forth The blinding sleet and snaw: While tumbling brown, the burn comes down, And roars frae bank to brae; And bird and beast in covert rest, And pass the heartless day.   ~ Excerpt from “Winter: A [...]

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A Sense of Style

Anyone who has been engaged in the craft of writing for any length of time has developed a uniquely personal style.  During the last three years in Chapman’s English and Creative Writing program, my own narrative style has been described as meticulous, high, ornamental, tedious, lovely, distracting, measured, and obsolete.  While some of these modifiers [...]

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Short Story Award for New Writers

Glimmer Train is currently accepting submissions for its annual Short Story Award for New Writers contest through February 29.  The contest is open to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000.  Entries must not have appeared in any print publication.  Stories submitted to this category are typically [...]

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John Fowles Literary Forum – Carlos Franz

The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing at Chapman University promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction, and film.  Each spring, the Center invites a distinguished group of national and international writers to participate in its annual reading series, giving students and non-students alike the opportunity to be exposed [...]

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Love is More Thicker Than Forget

love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail   it is more mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea   love is less always than to win less never [...]

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The Man Within My Head

Acclaimed author and travel writer Pico Iyer is returning to Chapman University on February 22 to give a lecture and read from his new book, The Man Within My Head (Knopf, 2012), in which Iyer explores the kinship he feels with the late British novelist Graham Greene.   “Almost all of us have some stranger we’ve [...]

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The Missouri Review Audio Competition

The Missouri Review is once again hosting its audio literary competition and invites all writers and writer/producers to submit recordings of original poetry or prose or an audio documentary on any subject by March 15, 2012.   In an effort to expand the contest this year, TMR has opened submissions to a pay-by-donation entry fee.  Your [...]

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February

The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February’s mercury vapor light buffing but not defrosting the bone-white ground, crusty and treacherous underfoot. This is the time of year that’s apt to put a hammerlock on a healthy appetite, old anxieties back into the night, insomnia and nightmares into play; when things in [...]

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An Evening with Dennis Palumbo

The Pen on Fire Writers Salon is pleased to present an evening with author and psychotherapist Dennis Palumbo on Tuesday, March 6, at 7:00 p.m.  In addition to celebrating the publication of Palumbo’s new novel, this special salon event will serve as a writing clinic for its literary audience.   Palumbo’s novel Mirror Image (Poisoned Pen [...]

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