You should read David James Poissant’s debut novel, Lake Life. (It’s by the same guy who wrote the insanely, unimaginably good short story collection, The Heaven of Animals.) Check it out!
On Saturday, May 2nd, from 3:30-4:30pm (over in the Borg Warner East room of the Tompkins Co. Library), the awesomely awesome Heather Bartlett, Kathryn Henion, and I will host a panel on navigating and submitting to lit mags. Come say hi!
FYI: the Spring Writes organizers have put the literary festival on hold until sometime in Fall 2020 due to complications from the coronavirus pandemic. Details on the revised schedule TBA.
Amber Sparks and I had the chance to talk recently about her third short story collection, And I Do Not Forgive You (Liveright). You can check out our interview over at Fiction Writers Review.
Come join me, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Sarah Jefferis, and Sarah Pape in San Antonio, TX, on Saturday, March 7th, 2020, as we present “Round Characters: Writing Family in Creative Nonfiction.” The panel will run from 10:35-11:50am over in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. For the full AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference Schedule, you can find it here.
Fiction Writers Review was excellent enough to run the interview I did with Kristen Arnett recently, in support of her debut novel’s release. You can check it out here!
Recently, I had the chance to speak with Jason Allen about his debut novel, THE EAST END (Park Row Books). You can find our discussions at Fiction Writers Review and The Rumpus, and you can buy Jason’s outstanding book here, here, and here.
