Should Mamas Let Their Babies Grow Up to Study Writing?

Find the answer here.

Pardon My Schoolgirl Excitement

But Kevin Brophy, anwriter I very much admire, has written a wonderful review of Rethinking Creative Writing for the Australian journal, TEXT, which I also very much admire.

One of those occasions where you hold your breath and pray as you open the link and then, whew, he liked it!  He really seemed to like it.

I just wish I could afford a study tour of writing programs in Australia!  I’ll have to work on that!

Bye for now,

SV

PS Thanks to my publisher, Anthony Haynes at Professional and Higher, for originally posting the link!

Advice on Fee-Based Writing Contests

Over at the Huffington Post today.

Getting grants, writing job applications and more. . .

One of the most popular posts on this blog is one where I spoke briefly about what I knew about getting grants.  Here is another helpful piece about that very subject from Inside Higher Education.

Enjoy.  Bye for now, y’all.

SV

Publish, Don’t Perish: Today’s Post

is over at the Huffington Post.

Wordamour on the Radio!

Talking about Rethinking Creative Writing live this Thursday April 12 or thereafter coming to a podcast near you:

Details here.  Give it a listen; better yet, call in during the show with a question.

See you in the airwaives,

SV

How She Does It

Today’s post, How She Does It: A Day in the Life of a College Writing Teacher, is over at  the Huffington Post as part #dayofhigher ed.  Check it out!