Some of our editors and contributors at AWP 2012 in Chicago
Fiction Writers Review is at AWP again this year, and we’re looking forward to catching up with our friends and contributors.
Throughout the conference, you can find us in the Bookfair at Table P9 in Exhibit Hall B on the Plaza Level of the Hynes Convention [...]
Fiction Writers Review’s first-ever fundraiser, The Great Write Off, is starting TODAY! It’s not too late to help. You can sign up to write on FWR’s team or make a donation yourself (even $5 goes a long way). Proceeds will go to a revamped website and to pay our all-volunteer staff and [...]
Here at Fiction Writers Review, we run this website as volunteers, in our spare time and out of our own pockets. We think we’ve got a great site with great content—and since you’re here, reading this blog, we hope you agree! This fall, we’re running our first-ever fundraiser, and it’s your chance [...]
We were delighted to learn that FWR contributor Danielle Lazarin was the first-place winner of Glimmer Train’s April 2012 Family Matters contest!
A full list of winners and top-25 finalists is on the Glimmer Train website. Danielle’s winning story, “Spider Legs,” will be published in Glimmer Train in 2013. In the meantime, you can learn [...]
In 2009 I attended the second annual Sozopol Fiction Seminars, sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and held each May on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. I lost my sunglasses in the sea, which the Bulgarians told me meant I had to return.
This year I did go back, and most things have remained [...]
Happy Short Story Month 2012! Once again, we’ll be celebrating short stories all month here at Fiction Writers Review:
Reviews of fantastic story collections
Interviews with short story writers like Lysley Tenorio, Ben Fountain, and Laura Maylene Walter
The return of our popular “Stories We Love” blog posts: writers on the stories that inspire them—and why
Book of [...]
We here at Fiction Writers Review are excited to hit AWP and catch up with our friends and contributors.
All throughout the conference, you can find us at our Bookfair table (N16)—come by and say hi!
And here’s a partial list of FWR-related events:
Thursday, March 1st:
12 pm – “Beyond the Workshop”: Contributor Margaret Lazarus Dean and other [...]
We know our contributors are amazing, and we’re always thrilled when the rest of the world notices, too. So we’re delighted to tell you what some of our talented contributors have been up to beyond FWR’s pages.
The latest news, in no particular order:
Anne Barnhill’s debut novel, At the Mercy of the Queen, released Jan 3 [...]
HUGE congratulations to friend of FWR Jesmyn Ward, who just won the 2011 National Book Award for fiction for her novel Salvage the Bones!
In reviewing Ward’s novel, Ron Charles wrote in the Washington Post,
When the finalists for the National Book Award in Fiction were announced last month, I’m embarrassed to admit that I was [...]
On Thursday, October 20, the Traverse City National Writers Series will host An Evening with Jeffrey Eugenides at 8pm at the Lars Hockstad Auditorium in Traverse City, Michigan. The evening will conclude with a reception and book signing with the author.
Here at Fiction Writers Review, we’re very excited about this reading–and not just because our [...]
