[CW-Grad] Ploughshares - submit nonfiction

[Robin Russin]

Perhaps of interest--



Invitation to submit, Emerging Writer Contest, and stories about family dysfunction for Thanksgiving...
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Writers: submit soon for nonfiction issue
We are on the hunt for Patricia Hampl's Fall 2012 all-nonfiction issue. Submit onlineor via regular mail. The regular reading period ends on January 15th, so please polish and send in those essays soon. Other genres are, of course, welcome as well.
Also, our Emerging Writer's Award opens on February 1st, and now includesseparate $1000 prizes for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Click here for details, and remember that the $20 entrance fee includes a subscription to the magazine.
Best of the Blog
Just in time for Thanksgiving, we gather together our favorite works of art aboutfamily dysfunction.
Laura van den Berg continues her Innovators in Lit series with Jenna Johnson, Senior Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, on life at a major house, covers, the length of novels, and getting attention for a book. (Also check out her interview with Paul W. Morris, General Manager of BOMB magazine.)
James Scott on getting better as a writer: raising your own expectations and theimportance of community.
Reviews! Love and Capital, about the marriage of Karl Marx; You Deserve Nothing, about a handsome young teacher's relationship with his students; andThe Language of Flowers, about a lonely foster child and her methods ofbotanical coping.
Winter Issue

The Winter issue, guest-edited by Alice Hoffman, is back from the printers! Click here to subscribe. The new issue features everything from a modern Russian fairy tale by Rachel Kadish to a dark story by William Giraldi about wolves carrying away children in a small Alaska town.

The issue also features poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin and Marge Piercy, essays by Bonnie Friedman and Michael Anania, and an excerpt from a new novel by Wally Lamb. Plus an interview with Elizabeth Bishop from the archives, featuring never-before-published material.

40th Anniversary Event
We all had a wonderful time at the 40th anniversary event. Denis Leary was gracious and funny, talking about the influence of James Randall as a mentor while he was at Emerson; poetry editor John Skoyles read some of Leary's early poetry; and everyone, from Sue Miller to Wally Lamb to chef Ming Tsai, gave wonderful readings of work that appeared in Ploughshares. Miller read Alice Munro, Lamb read Raymond Carver, and Emerson President Lee Pelton read Richard Yates.











Bruins' great Cam Neely said it had been a while since him and the guys in the locker room had recited poems to each other, then gave fine readings of poems by Seamus Heaney and Thomas Lux. Dennis Lehane gave an award for literary distinction to the late Robert Parker, and then read the last page Parker ever wrote in the Spenser series; and Alice Hoffman, who received a lifetime award, spoke about the continuing importance of literary magazines. Ann Leary, whose story "Safety" appears in our next issue, and was one of many to help put the event together, writes about it here.

Ploughshares was founded in 1971 at the Plough and Stars in Cambridge, MA. We are a journal of new writing, and each issue is guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston. Pshares.org
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Robin Russin

Associate Professor and Director
MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
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"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick," written by Herman Melville

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples

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