What writers will do to keep paper and pen together …
This month, we celebrate the publication of From Pantyhose to Spandex: Writers on the Job Redux. The book is a veritable cornucopia of odd true tales about zany jobs that writers do to keep the ink flowing. And it happens to feature some of Broad Street‘s authors. The editors, Thomas E. Kennedy (“Prix Fixe,” from our...
Contributor news: On the *Notable* Bea Chang and the river her father promised.
“They were river boys, he likes to say, and they grew up into mountain men. In college, they sneaked past anti-Communist guardposts by the pale gray of dawn to backpack into the mountain range that stretches down the heart of Taiwan.” We’re pleased to see that Bea Chang’s “The River My Father Promised” has...
“My Internship at Tiffany’s,” by Julie Anderson–featured at “Writers on the Job.”
“Who were these elegant ladies who brushed past me, perusing the display cases as casually as if they were shopping for dinner? At Christmas-time, these women wore fur coats and heels and somehow they just looked like money. My mother was beautiful, too, but even as a small child, I could tell the difference between her fake...
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New Pages reviews our “Maps & Legends.”
Thanks to NEW PAGES for the thoughtful review of our summer 2016 issue, with special praise for essays by Julie Anderson and Bea Chang, a poem by Ron Smith, and Bradley Dicharry’s photo essay featuring vernacular sign design (see some of his images with this post). * Read the full review here. And enjoy...
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Speaking about Submissions … New Themes Announced!
Gentle contributors, present and future! We’ve been in a reading frenzy these days. We are reveling in the submissions currently on Submittable and looking forward to what we might find for our next themes: *Rivals & Players *Birth, School, Work, Death *It’s a Sunshine Day (new!) *Control (new!) Read more about these themes below. *...
