It’s been a busy week for the WITTScasters, but the world doesn’t stop.
Fiction Writers Review interviews J. Robert Lennon.
The Review Review submits New Yorker stories, which are soundly rejected. No surprise, not because the New Yorker stories are no good, but because literary journal screeners have so much to wade through that great stories get rejected all the time. The twist is that the New Yorker rejected a few of its old stories. Slate calls BS.
Ron Rash on writing. I’ve got a review of his new collection coming out this weekend, and I’ll post a link.
Cathy Day on the “abyss” between school and publication. Most writers don’t make it through this phase. Also, she weighs in on professionalism in general.
Should writers write for free? This is a complex issue, worthy of more thoughts.