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Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes” turned things around, along with Mary Karr’s “The Liar’s Club,” Pete Hamill’s “A Drinking Life” and Tobias Wolff’s “This Boy’s Life.”
Those memoirs dealt with childhoods every bit as terrible as those written by the whiners and the bashers, but they were written with love and forgiveness. These writers were as hard on their younger selves as they were on their elders. They were saying, in effect, we come from a tribe of fallible people and we have survived to tell the story.
And I love this, from James Atlas:
I find it moving that it took Frank McCourt until the age of 65 to find his story and work up the nerve to write it. Asked once at a literary panel what he’d been doing all that time, he answered in his still-strong Irish brogue: “Recoverin’.”
The indefatigable Robin Hemley (pictured on the right), a Brevity contributor and friend, and author of the charming memoir, Do Over!, has opened two new contests on his blog(s), so here’s your chance to win money, or free books, or just have fun.
1. Robin is looking for silly reviews and dumb book blog postings at bookbelches.blogspot.com. Cash prizes!! The first entry is in, and here’s a preview:
Moby Dick is the most BORING book I have ever read!…. We were given a list of books in English class, and I chose to read this. After a week, I was just in page 103. It was needed the next day, so I panicked and switched books, and bought War and Peace. And I finished that book in 8 hours of straight reading.
2. Also, at Robinhemley.blogspot.com, Robin (aka Mr. Red Bull) is sponsoring a contest to win free copies of Do Over. Simply email him at Robinhemley@gmail.com what you might like to do over in your life. On the same website, well-known authors (and a certain Brevity editor) share Book Tour Disaster stories.
“Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a poem how to write a publishable poem. The fruit of the theory is the writing workshop, a combination of ritual scarring and twelve-on-one group therapy where aspiring writers offer their views of the efforts of other aspiring writers.”
The Grub Street Book Prize is awarded three times annually to a writer outside New England publishing his or her second, third, fourth (or beyond…) book. First books are not eligible. Writers whose primary residence is Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire or Rhode Island are also not eligible. Each winner receives a $1000 honorarium and a reading/book party at Grub Street’s event space in downtown Boston. Fiction and Non-Fiction writers are also invited as guest authors to the “Muse and the Marketplace” literary conference.
Dinty W. Moore, Brevity editor, won the 2009 prize and thoroughly enjoyed the conference and the opportunity, so we can wholeheartedly recommend both Grub Street and Muse and the Marketplace.
If you meet the criteria above, the NON-FICTION deadline for submitting the book and application is July 1st, 2009. (NOTE: Books published in 2009 and 2010 are eligible, as long as 2010 books are available in galley form by July 1st.)
More info here (as well as detail for the fiction and poetry prizes):
“The credibility battle is being won in many ways, by pioneer online journals that have remained very selective in the work they publish, by somewhat newer ventures like McSweeney’s and Narrative and Blackbird that have the funding and staffing to act like “real” magazines and draw in the star power, and by conventional print magazines that are opening up more and more online content. I suppose there are some tenure committees that still turn up their collective egghead noses at online publications, but most writers I know, and especially if they are younger, don’t carry that prejudice any more.”
Well, AWP has come and gone. Chicago was kindly in its weather (more so than New York was, at least), but the hotel conference rooms seemed as small as ever. Why is it that the best-sounding panels are always in the smallest rooms?
There’s been a lot of talk about the conference since the conference (J. S. Tunotre shares some snark at AGNI online, and Robert Gray gives an optimistic outsider’s take on the event at Fresh Eyes Now; google “AWP recap” or some such phrase to find more), but here at Brevity we’re wondering what the nonfictioning world has to say.
So how ’bout it? What does AWP do for you as a nonfiction writer? What do you wish it would do?
I’ll go first, so as to set the tone and break the ice. I, David Grover, would like a little more “celebration” and a little less “conference” at the conference. Don’t get me wrong—I love thoughtful panels and readings, but why not do a little more word-partying? I don’t know what this would entail exactly—index cards and sharpies? dictionaries and catchers’ mitts?—but I’m sure it could be done. I’m positive that a group as clever and fun as us could do some very good celebrating of both brevity and the pick-up line (that rascal of the genre [or are pick-up lines poetry?]), could honor our forebears with a Hazlitt quiz, could toast our craft with…a toast!
I saw a panel at the last NonfictioNow that had five or six writers presenting odd short essays they’d written in homage to Montaigne’s “Of Thumbs,” each one having to follow set of strictures dictated by the rolling of dice. It was a riot. I’d be open to more of that.
BREVITY, the journal of concise nonfiction, launches the 29th issue today, bringing youthe Big Bad Wolf, a glass eyeball, Parisian lingerie, a pair of stolen sneakers, an orphaned doe, and, possibly, a visitor from another planet. Maybe it’s just the snow playing tricks on our eyes, but each of these pieces seems to ask the same thing: “Did I see what I think I saw?” Bundle up and get warm by the intense fire of such talents as Lance Larsen, David Bradley, Tim Elhajj, John Bresland, Diane Seuss, Joe Bonomo, Kyle Minor, Laura Sewell Matter, Elizabeth Westmark, and Bryan Fry. Also, new Craft Essays from Brenda Miller and Lisa Knopp, and Book Reviews from Mary Richert, Richard Gilbert, and Stephanie Susnjara.
Harper’s Magazine’s Weekend Read Blog gives Brevity a nice shout out for the recent, wonderful mini-essay from Donovan Hohn, Snail Picking.
Here is what Harper’s had to say:
Donovan Hohn, an erstwhile editor at this magazine (and current contributing editor), has been writing terrific essays for Harper’s and others for a number of years. He has a lyrical way with line and a rigorous way with theme. He is attentive to the appearances of things, to the natural and its perversion by man. A little essay of Hohn’s that appeared in the journal of little essays, Brevity, begins:
I was, at age nine, a god of snails. On the quiet San Francisco cul-de-sac where my family lived, Helix aspera, the brown garden snail, was by far the most plentiful and least evasive wildlife around. Snails plied the long green fins of our neighbor’s agapanthus like barges transiting green canals. I’d unglue them from their shiny trails, hold them in mid-air, and poke their sensitive horns. They’d ripple and recoil.
Dzanc Books has been wonderfully innovative since arriving on the scene a few years ago, and now, here’s the latest:
DZANC WRITE-A-THON
The idea behind the write-a-thon will be similar to bowl-a-thons, or walk-a-thons, or, well you get the picture – other a-thons that you’ve probably supported or participated in during your lifetime, only with writing being the catalyst to the raising of funds. For one day, people will volunteer to write to help raise money, and they will ask people to fill out a donation sheet to support their efforts.
For volunteers
1. Saturday, November 15, 2008.
That will be the date that those helping out Dzanc Books by raising money will be writing. Again I’m asking that you writers out there please consider being one of those that help us raise money that day. If you are interested, please email us at info@dzancbooks.org.
2. Dzanc Books will provide a donation sheet that you’ll have sponsors fill out – you can see an example of this at our website.
3. Your sponsors will be able to make donation pledges based on either a) the number of words you write during the session, or b) flat rate donations – whichever they prefer and get most excited about.
4. The morning of the 15th, we will send out a prompt or topic, and will post it on our website. Writers will then spend the day writing stories, or poems, or essays, using that prompt or topic (this will give those sponsoring, especially those donating based on word count, a good feeling that the work done was all done on the 15th).
Details below, from the folks at the University of New Orleans Low-Residency Program:
Announcing the second annual Writing Workshops in San Miguel
Join us this summer in lovely San Miguel de Allende for an unforgettable month of writing and community. We’re very excited about our newest program and plan to make this year even better than last! Faculty and Guests will include:
Joseph and Amanda Boyden, Andrei Codrescu, Alex Espinoza, Dinty W. Moore, Steven Church, Bill Lavender, Jim Grimsley, Hank Lazer, Michael Winter, and many more
San Miguel is located in the mountains north of Mexico City. The high elevation keeps the summer months cool. It is close enough to Mexico City for weekend visits, and even closer to such historic locations as Dolores Hidalgo, Querétero, and historic Guanajuato, famous for its mummies, silver mines, and as the birthplace of Diego Rivera. The program will provide excursions to nearby historic sites, and participants are also welcome to travel on their own on weekends.
Application for The Writing Workshops in San Miguel de Allende is now open. The priority deadline to sign up is January 15, 2009. Some new courses we are offering, or hope to offer, this summer include: A Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop in Fiction, Playwriting, and Screenwriting; A Food & Literature Class, which will feature many exciting readings, and food related excursions;A Chicano Literature Course; A Documentary Production Course; TWO CREATIVE NON-FICTION workshops, with Dinty W. Moore and Steven Church
Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3, edited by Lee Gutkind, forthcoming in August 2009 from W. W. Norton.
We’re looking for: Vibrant new voices with interesting, true stories to tell. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts that can stand alone, 2000 words max, from 2008. Something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s blog.
The small print: We will contact individual bloggers before publication; we pay a flat $50 fee for one-time reprint rights. Deadline: October 31, 2008.
Yes, we arranged this just for you. Honestly, it was darned expensive and time-consuming to fly Brevity’s complete editorial staff, including our new ice skating intern, all the way to Beijing, but Brevity readers are worth the expense:
Our Friends of Brevity Facebook group has 488 members as of this morning (March 29), which means we need just an even dozen more of you fine folks to reach 500. And then what? Something like this:
Goldfarb Family Fellowship for Nonfiction Writers /Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
A fully funded two-week residency to enable a nonfiction writer to concentrate solely on his or her creative work. This sponsored fellowship is offered each year to one nonfiction writer during the fall scheduling period (October through January). Writers will be provided a private bedroom, separate studio, and three prepared meals a day. The application process is the same as the regular VCCA application process. Deadline May 15.
You are invited to create a “tasty” video based on any written piece published in Brevity (and many other journals — see here).
The Mad Hatter’s Review is sponsoring the contest, calling for a “video inspired by a poem, fiction, literary non-fiction, or experimental form, a written work that stimulates you to create a video in response. You may decide to creatively and dramatically interpret and thereby ‘collaborate’ with the author of the work in terms of mood, energy, theme, related imagery, words, ‘plot,”’ music, and/or sounds.
Lots of blogging this past week wrapping up the AWP Conference experience. One of our favorite sites, New Pages, says it best:
AWP was a blast, and I’m exhausted. …
As for AWP – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love it. I know – trust me I know – it has its faults, for exhibitors working the bookfair as well as for attendees. That said, I am absolutely supercharged from my weekend of contact with some of the nicest, most generous and brilliant people in the publishing industry, education, and writing community …
My favorite part of AWP was being able to walk the floor and finally meet Face2Face with all of the people I know online and via e-mail – some for the first time, some renewing connections from AWPs past. We meet and in the frenzy that is the bookfair floor, we bemoan the exhibitor situaition, console one another on the state of reading and publishing in this day and age, shake fists at the postal hikes that are killing the small publications, and then make plans to meet again online to work on changing the literary world. And, as we have, so we will continue.
Emerson College’s Redivider journal will be hosting an “AWP Quickie” contest for short-short fiction, poetry, and yes Virginia, also for short-short nonfiction. In order to participate, conference attendees just need to stop by Redivider’s table, grab a quickie card, then write a story, poem, or essay on the back and return the card by the end of the bookfair. First prize winners will receive $50.00 and publication in the fall 2008 issue of Redivider. The judges are Brock Clarke for fiction, Ravi Shankar for poetry, and Lee Martin for nonfiction.
The AWP 2008 Conference & Bookfair in NYC is sold out. No more passes will be sold. No onsite registration will be available (presenters will be allowed to register onsite if they have not done so already). Over seven thousand people will be attending the NYC conference. Only pre-registered individuals possessing a registration badge will be admitted into the conference events & bookfair.
GARLAND, Texas (AP) – An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”
While gripping, it wasn’t true — and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie.
The sponsor of the contest was Club Libby Lu, a Chicago-based store that sells clothes, accessories and games intended for young girls.
“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”
The conference schedule features one-on-one sessions with editors and agents and panel discussions offering concrete tips about the art, craft and business of writing creative nonfiction. Presenters and speakers include Samir Husni (University of Mississippi), Virginia Morell (National Geographic), Rebecca Skloot (The New York Times Magazine, University of Memphis), June Thomas (Slate.com), Michael Rosenwald, (The New Yorker, Esquire), Webster Younce (Houghton Mifflin), Dinty W. Moore (Brevity, Ohio University), Kristen Iversen (The Pinch, University of Memphis), Ted Moncreiff (Conde Nast Traveler), Charlie Conrad (Doubleday/Broadway), Keith Bellows (National Geographic Traveler), John T. Edge (Gourmet, University of Mississippi) and conference director Lee Gutkind, the award-winning editor and founder of Creative Nonfiction.
Intensive writing workshops will also be offered before the official start of the conference. Instructors include Rebecca Skloot, Michael Rosenwald, Dinty W. Moore and Kristen Iversen. Topics include “Structure,” “How to Begin Your Memoir,” “The Art and Craft of Characterization in Memoir,” “Scenes from a Notebook,” and “Writing Book Proposals and Query Letters.”
This pilot program is “designed to support writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors … This round, the program “introduces a new grant category for short-form writing (texts of 1,000 words of less). In addition, the program seeks an increased engagement in the coming grant round with article-based projects and with art of the current moment.”
The program will support approximately 15-20 projects,
and grant amounts will range from $3,000-$50,000.
File this under “odd opportunities.” Monochrom, a Viennese net-artist collective, has sent out this intriguing call for submissions:
Monochrom is looking for articles, essays, graphics, cartoons, cut-up stuff for the next multi-issue of our non-commercial yearbook series “monochrom”. There is no maximum or minimum length for articles or essays. There is no general topic whatsoever. You write about things you find interesting. Or boring. Your text could be about radical constructivism. Or fish and chips. Or hacking your toilet. Or blowing up Mercury. Or HTML. Or Mormon theology and Battlestar Galactica. You’ll find your topic!
A big section of the publication will be dedicated to reviews. And we review everyhing. Want to review a certain medieval war? Or arctic sea protozoans? Laws of nature? Climate zones? Ways to die? Lava streams? Spam headers? Demonstrations? Sumerian gods? Neon feelings? A crisis? The different types of snow in Stephen King novels? Book shelves in porn movies? Kosher hot dogs? Axiology? Sperm? Johann Sebastian Bach? German officers in American movies who shout “Schweinerei”? Russian oil pumps? Calvinistic prayers? Trash cans in Kansas and/or Lithuania? Anal sex? The Northwest as an ontological entity? Perfect! Go on!
The inaugural Creative Nonfiction Writing Institute, MAKING MEMOIR, will be held in hilly Pittsburgh from July 13-14, 2007. MAKING MEMOIR features a day-long Friday course on writing the memoir – emphasizing the basic elements of the classic memoir, such as scene-writing, description, structure, voice and tone, and ethical issues, taught by Lee Gutkind, writer, editor, and founder of Creative Nonfiction.
On Saturday, July 14, Gutkind will lead a day-long workshop for advanced writers, memoirist Floyd Skloot will offer a three-hour morning workshop entitled WORKING WITH FRAGMENTS OF MEMORY, and Brevity editor Dinty W. Moore will lead an afternoon workshop on THE ART AND CRAFT OF CHARACTERIZATION IN MEMOIR.
Abby Frucht , Rebecca McClanahan, Ira Sukrungruang, Barbara Hurd, Bonnie J. Rough, Jennifer Sinor, Carrie Oeding, Suzanne LaFetra, Charles Cantalupo, and Chris Orlet.
Topics this time around include women’s work, Selective Service, cockle shells, mussels, life’s fragility, ruby-throated hummingbirds, Stevie Wonder, animal crackers, baby wipes, beach umbrellas, dusk, and Rural Route 1.
We are also pleased to feature new book reviews, of the late Deborah Tall’s A Family of Strangers and David Griffith’s A Good War is Hard to Find.
1. BREVITY, and the entire full-time editorial staff, will be moving to Ohio University next month. Look for us in Ellis Hall. Our e-mail address (brevitymag@gmail.com) remains the same.
2. We’ve suspended reading new submissions for the summer, but look forward to reading your work in September.
3. We’re pleased to note that work from Brevity has been anthologized in Judith Kitchen’s Short Takes anthology, the forthcoming Best Creative Nonfiction anthology from W.W. Norton, and three recent writing textbooks. Additionally, Robert Atwan’s Best American Essays 2006 cites Creative Nonfiction’s Best of Brevity issue as one of the five notable special issues of the year. Thanks to all of our contributors.
The folks at Brevity will be popping popcorn and crowding onto our office sofa this evening because Lee Gutkind, editor of our sister publication and godfather-in-chief of the Creative Nonfiction Foundation will be Jon Stewart’s guest on The Daily Show tonight — Monday, May 7th — to talk about his new book, Almost Human: Making Robots Think. The New York Times recently observed that The Daily Show has become one of the “most reliable venues for promoting weighty books,” which is just amazing to consider. What a world!
Yes, the show will be re-aired Tuesday for those who can’t stay up that late.
Scholarships are available for educators, students, and working journalists. Check the link for more details.
Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest Scholarships
Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism
PO Box 311460
Denton, TX 76203-1460 http://www.mayborninstitute.unt.edu
Deadline: June 15, 2007
Lyon College 2008 Visiting Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction
Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, a highly selective four-year liberal arts college, seeks a distinguished writer of creative nonfiction for its 3rd biennial Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing, a six-week residency scheduled during the spring 2008 semester (exact dates negotiable). An honorarium of $5,000 plus campus housing and meals are provided, as well as a travel stipend of up to $350 for round-trip transportation to and from Batesville.
If you attended the first NonfictioNow Conference in Fall 2005, you know how enjoyable and stimulating an event the fine folks in Iowa City put on. The most common response was along the lines of, “This is like the AWP, but small enough to feel as if I can talk to people.”
Robin and his merry gang are planning another event, in November 2007, and the panel deadline (just recently extended) is March 31st. So put something together?
We are off to the AWP Conference in Atlanta. Though Brevity has never quite seen the wisdom of ponying up for a table at the bookfair, since we have nothing to sell (and no revenue to pay for the table), we’ll be there nonetheless, wandering from table to table, admiring our well-funded competition, pocketing free pens.
If you are there too, look for the nametag — Dinty — and say hello.
You can visit the blog, as you are right now, or receive the occasdional post in your e-mail inbox. (We promise: No spam, your e-mail address will not be used for any other nefarious purpose.) Interested? Sign up here:
The Spring 2007 Global Warming issue of BREVITY, the journal of concise literary nonfiction, has poked through the ice. Brevity 23 features ten outstanding essayists — Robin Behn, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sandi Wisenberg, Anne Panning, Patricia O’Hara, Grace Talusan , Christopher Cocca, Joy Beshears Hagy, Mary Akers, and Leslie Stainton — exploring childbirth, urban sprawl, catachresis, candy cigarettes, and beyond.
We are also proud to announce our new Book Review section, including review essays by Lee Martin, Patrick Madden, Kim Dana Kupperman, Porter Shreve and Todd Davis. Plus an adhesive new Craft Essay by Shane Borrowman.
I’m endorsing this event, especially since I’ll be one of the speakers. But really, it tends to be a good time, and if you haven’t heard Kathryn Harrison speak, you’ve missed the boat:
3rd annual 412 PITTSBURGH CREATIVE NONFICTION FESTIVAL, November 6-11.
Focusing on ETHICS IN WRITING, this year’s festival brings together prominent writers,
editors and critics for a serious discussion of the ethical issues writers face when telling their
stories: Is it fair or ethical to reveal intimate details about friends and family in essays,
poems and stories? How can writers avoid exploiting their subjects? Is it legitimate to
recreate conversation from memory? How can you fact-check a memoir? How can writers—
and readers—navigate the gray areas between fact and fiction, accuracy and embellishment?
This year’s featured guests are H.G. “BUZZ” BISSINGER (author of “Friday Night Lights” and
“Three Nights in August”) and KATHRYN HARRISON (author of the controversial memoir “The
Kiss” and “The Seal Wife”).
The Ludington CNF Conference, a weekend event focusing on the Creative Nonfiction genre will be held in Ludington Thursday through Saturday, September 21-23. Faculty include Michael Steinberg, Joe Mackall, Mimi Schwartz, J. D. Dolan, and Anne-Marie Oomen. The Conference will include craft presentations by the faculty, panel discussions, and readings by both faculty and registered participants. Private manuscript conferences with faculty members are also part of the event.
The full schedule of events, presentation and panel topics, venues, registrations information, and accommodations can be found at the LVW website – www.ludingtonwriters.com.
The Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Summer Writers’ Conference, August 8-13, is now in its eleventh summer. Highlighting this year’s conference will be bestselling authors Kathryn Harrison (The Kiss) and Mary Karr (The Liars’ Club) and seven faculty including Brevity editor Dinty W. Moore (that’s me)! At Goucher College, just outside of Baltimore. More info here
The NY Times is running a nice series of tributes to Frank McCourt, as they should. He was a sweet man and a fine writer. Today, a 
The indefatigable Robin Hemley (pictured on the right), a Brevity contributor and friend, and author of the charming memoir, 
All this fuss about Louis Menand’s 
The Grub Street Book Prize is awarded three times annually to a writer outside New England publishing his or her second, third, fourth (or beyond…) book. First books are not eligible. Writers whose primary residence is Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire or Rhode Island are also not eligible. Each winner receives a $1000 honorarium and a reading/book party at Grub Street’s event space in downtown Boston. Fiction and Non-Fiction writers are also invited as guest authors to the “
.. Brevity editor Dinty W. Moore is giving way too many interviews:
Marginalia magazine is offering a unique way to rid yourself of those sad little slips of paper (or e-mail, nowadays) that enter every writer’s life.
Well, AWP has come and gone. Chicago was kindly in its weather (more so than New York was, at least), but the hotel conference rooms seemed as small as ever. Why is it that the best-sounding panels are always in the smallest rooms?
BREVITY, 
Harper’s Magazine’s Weekend Read Blog gives Brevity a nice shout out for the recent, wonderful mini-essay from Donovan Hohn, 
Dzanc Books has been wonderfully innovative since arriving on the scene a few years ago, and now, here’s the latest:
Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3, edited by Lee Gutkind, forthcoming in August 2009 from W. W. Norton.
Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2008 anthology is now available and can be ordered online, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or from 
You are invited to create a “tasty” video based on any written piece published in Brevity (and many other journals — 
Lots of blogging this past week wrapping up the 
Emerson College’s Redivider journal will be hosting an “AWP Quickie” contest for short-short fiction, poetry, and yes Virginia, also for short-short nonfiction. In order to participate, conference attendees just need to stop by Redivider’s table, grab a quickie card, then write a story, poem, or essay on the back and return the card by the end of the bookfair. First prize winners will receive $50.00 and publication in the fall 2008 issue of Redivider. The judges are Brock Clarke for fiction, Ravi Shankar for poetry, and Lee Martin for nonfiction.
Arts Writers Grant Program
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