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Stories Shouldn\u27t Be Easy to Tell : A Chat With Author Kerry Neville
Get PDFKerry Neville’s just-released collection of short stories, Remember to Forget Me, is described as filled with “enormous compassion.” She lives in Georgia where she teaches at Georgia College and State University. Her first collection of stories, Necessary Lies, received the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize in Fiction and was named a ForeWord Magazine Short Story Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Epoch, and Triquarterly, and online in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and The Fix. She has twice been the recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art’s “Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction,” and has also been awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Kay Cattarulla Prize for the Short Story and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize from Crab Orchard Review
The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Main Characters
Get PDFYou put your heart and soul into your main character. You present him/her to your workshop or agent or editor, and you get: “He just isn’t likeable,” “I couldn’t picture her,” “Didn’t seem very believable.” Aaaah! That character was you, or some version of you, or just a character you happen to really, really like. How could people think he’s a jerk? How could they think she was vague, inconsistent, unbelievable? Yes, you could put bricks in your pockets and walk into the nearest river. But before you go all Quentin (Compson, not Tarantino) on us, consider this. Your character isn’t defective. He just has a condition that’s interfering with his success. In other words, a character disorder. For mental health issues, clinicians use The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). But where do you go for help with character disorders
The Seven Habits of Successful Writers
Get PDFOne of the thrilling but daunting tasks of becoming a better writer is that you have to design your own curriculum. Sure, you can participate in helpful writing workshops taught by admired authors or read various experts\u27 books on craft, but you still have to choose for yourself which courses to take and what books to read. Even if you attend an MFA program, you have to decide what to write and how, whether or not to outline, how to undertake revisions, when and where to submit your work and so on. In many ways, writers are their own teachers, responsible for their own flounderings and successes and ultimately answerable only to themselves. Generally speaking, no one even cares what you do, which can be both a bad and a very good thing. Still, in any career you embark upon, including writing, there are certain cultivatable habits that can make your job easier. And although writers have different ways of allocating their writing time and different methods of operating (some create meticulous outlines before beginning, others vomit out first drafts, etc.) there exists among writers something of a consensus on the habits that fuel success
Online Magazine is a Carefully Curated Collective of Diversity; Review of Diverse Voices Quarterly, Fall 2014
Get PDFDiverse Voices Quarterly, now in its fifth year of online publication, was founded on a type of diversity that’s refreshing: it’s open to “every age, race, gender, sexual orientation, and religious background. This journal, in essence, celebrates and unifies diversity.” (I pulled this from the About DVQ tab on their easy to navigate, well-designed website.) Rest assured: you already fit into that broad (and welcoming) category, and should consider sending your work its way
On Editing Prose, the Gender Gap in Publishing, and Eating Alligator!: A chat with Cara Blue Adams, Editor of Southern Review
Get PDFCara Blue Adams\u27s fiction has appeared in Narrative, The Kenyon Review, and The Sun, among other journals. She won the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize. She lives in Baton Rouge, where she is the fiction and nonfiction editor of The Southern Review
We Recognize and Aim to Foster Feminism in All its Manifestations, Waves, and Expressions : A Chat with Monica J. Casper, editor of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism
Get PDFMonica J. Casper, Head of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, has published five books and numerous articles, is co-editor of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, and is a managing editor of The Feminist Wire. Her creative writing has appeared in Mojave River Review, Slow Trains, Vine Leaves, The Linnet’s Wings, and elsewhere. Born and raised in the Midwest, she currently resides in Tucson with her partner, daughters, and two canines. For more information, visit www.monicajcasper.com
Why Are Writers of Color Underrepresented Among Published Authors? One Poet\u27s Questions and Possible Solutions
Get PDFOn 7 November 2015, The Atlantic published an article by Kavita Das titled, “Writers shouldn\u27t romanticize rejection: in the literary world, talent isn\u27t hiding. It\u27s being ignored.” The article advanced two major premises: that a minority “voice” may be “alien or unrecognizable” and that rejection is a function of “power” relations. In Das\u27 words, “Is my voice going to be somehow alien or unrecognizable to the person I am submitting it to?” Though the author recognizes that her essay might apply to all writers from underrepresented groups, she directs her concerns primarily to “writers of color.” While I agree that racial and ethnic diversity should be a priority in the literary world, I submit this essay to suggest that numerous factors may operate to limit opportunities for underrepresented writers and that Das has overlooked some possible solutions. While I practice poetry seriously, I am neither a professional nor an academic poet. Thus, I cannot claim to have systematically studied the topic under consideration. I hope, however, to broaden and to enhance the conversation about under-representation of some groups among those identifying as writers, particularly, writers competing for publication
“One of My Favorite Parts … Is When I Help to Pair Up Writers and Architects to Create Pieces Together”: A Chat with Joseph Altshuler, Editor of Soiled
Get PDFSOILED positions itself between a literary journal and a design magazine. Produced an artist-led team of four and published by a Chicago-based design practice, the journal publishes themed issues, the most recent of which focuses on children’s stories
Effects of deceptive footwear condition on subjective comfort and running biomechanics
Get PDFComfort is a major criterion for footwear selection. Previous studies have suggested that physical properties were not enough to predict comfort and psychological factors could also affect the perception. To understand comfort, this study examined the effect of controlled shoe description and price cue on the perception of comfort. Furthermore, this study also examined the running biomechanics in response to footwear conditions of differing comfort. Fifteen runners completed treadmill running tests in two conditions: Shoe A and Shoe B. The same pair of neutral running shoes was used in both conditions, yet, Shoe B was described to be the “latest model designed to maximize comfort” and more expensive than Shoe A. Comfort assessment was conducted after the running trial of each condition. Participants reported significantly greater comfort in Shoe B than Shoe A (p=0.011, Cohen’s d=0.70). There were no significant differences found among the temporal-spatial parameters (p\u3e0.916) and the vertical loading rates (p\u3e0.161) when comparing the more and less comfortable conditions. In conclusion, runners exhibited a biased perception of footwear comfort when presented with different shoe description and price information. However, such a difference in perceived comfort alone is not likely to affect running biomechanics
Publications in Literary Magazines Validates the Time I Spend Alone at My Desk : A Chat With Author Melissa Fraterrigo
Get PDFMelissa Fraterrigo has published two books: the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy, and Glory Days, a novel-in-stories. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in more than forty literary journals and anthologies including The Rumpus, Shenandoah, The Massachusetts Review, storySouth and Notre Dame Review. She has been a finalist for awards from Glimmer Train on multiple occasions, twice nominated for Pushcart Awards, and was the winner of the Sam Adams/Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest. Currently, she is director of the Lafayette Writers’ Studio, which she founded in 2014 in Lafayette, Indiana. The Review Review caught up with Melissa to talk about her new book, Glory Days, which will be released by the University of Nebraska Press in September 2017