Word Pirates

This week is memoir week at Slate. The online magazine frequently has week-long themes about books or genres.
Over the next three days, our critics will be weighing in on new memoirs. What has been most striking to us at Slate is how many memoirs these days are anything but coming-of-age stories; instead, they tackle issues […]

The new issue of Six Little Things — #6 Spring 2007 “Mortal Enemies” — is online now, featuring new short work by F.J. Bergmann, Louis E. Bourgeois, Alan Davis, Annalynn Hammond, Michael McCauley, and Joseph McLaughlin, with artwork by Toti O’Brien.
Submissions are open for issue #7, “X is the new Y,” deadline […]

Hiya. I will be going to this on March 21 if any of the Word Pirates want to come along.
~ Joy
The San Francisco Bay Area claims the highest concentration of literary journals in the United States, publishing hundreds of new works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction each year.
Editors read thousands of manuscripts, culling the pieces […]

Esquire magazine did something totally awesome. I wish I had thought of it. Then again, I am not a famous old magazine, so my attempt would not have been as successful. Here’s what Esquire did:
We put 250 napkins in the mail to writers from all over the country — some with a half dozen books […]