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Columbia Publishing Course takes on digital publishing

We’re delighted to present another post by our awesome FWR editorial intern, Nicole Aber.  Enjoy! Going into the publishing industry now requires a whole new skill set from the days when American classics like East of Eden and The Great Gatsby were released in the early and mid-twentieth century. Now, those interested in the publishing field are faced not only with print media, but also questions of how to keep publishing in pace with the ever-increasing digital world — questions of the utmost importance for those enrolled in a course all about publishing. Students attending the Columbia Publishing Course this […]


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How to save a library? With postcards–and some attitude.

We’re delighted to present the following post by Nicole Aber, our FWR editorial intern. Enjoy! Last summer, I worked a few blocks away from the regal main branch of the New York Public Library near Bryant Park. During the interlude between the end of the work day and the start of a class I was taking, I’d sometimes take refuge in the humbling building, its architectural beauty and breathtaking murals never ceasing to amaze me. So when I came across the story of a young girl aiming to keep the city’s libraries open by writing comical postcards to New York […]


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Video games: the next writing prompt?

As part of our ongoing Short Story Month celebrations, we’re delighted to present the following guest post by Drake Misek, an intern at Fiction Writers Review through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at the University of Michigan. The next game to come out of Rockstar—who you probably know for Grand Theft Auto and might know for last year’s acclaimed Red Dead Redemption—will be L.A. Noire. True to its name, it’ll be a sort of detective adventure in a recreated 1940s L.A. There’s been a lot of hype for the game, fueled by its publisher, premise, and some great features, […]


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Dispatch from AWP 2011: An Intern-Eye View, Part II

The following post was written by Josie Keenan, Emily VanDusen, and Drake Misek, all interns at Fiction Writers Review through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at the University of Michigan. Emily, on the pros and cons of the transmedia: To start off our second, and regrettably final, day of the conference, the three of us attended the panel discussion “From the Page to the Small Screen: What the Information Age Means for Us.” Although the panelists were all involved with poetry, the main goal of the discussion was to make sense of the transition from printed literary journals and […]


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Dispatch from AWP 2011: An Intern-Eye View

The following post was written by Josie Keenan, Emily VanDusen, and Drake Misek, all interns at Fiction Writers Review through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at the University of Michigan. Josie, on the keynote speech: After arriving in DC Thursday evening for the 2011 AWP Conference and adjusting to the big-city lights, we three interns trekked over to attend the conference’s keynote address by Pulitzer prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri delivered her first-ever keynote with all the quiet confidence and deep thoughtfulness that emanates from her stories. In it, she explored the question: Did she always want to be […]




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