A monthly letter from Gotham’s dean of faculty, Kelly Caldwell (usually writing advice)
Fall is a special time, writers. There are just so many publications and contests and festivals and fellowships looking for your work. At Poets & Writers magazine right now, they’ve posted more than 75 fiction contests with deadlines between October 15 and the end of the year, and more than 100 for poetry. Continue reading “Submit!”
As writers, we talk a lot about our need to cultivate empathy, toward our subjects, our characters, our readers, our world. But what does that mean, exactly?
I could give you a long-winded definition, but instead, let’s just take a look at “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks: Continue reading “Cultivating Empathy”
Like a lot of great stories, Jon Larsen’s life-changer began in a moment so mundane, most of us would have forgotten it. Before breakfast one morning, Larsen wiped down the table til it was spotless, then turned back a second later to see a spot, “a shiny little speck that hadn’t been there before.” Continue reading “Searching for Stardust”