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ISSUE 7: URSULA LE GUIN, CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, CHRIS RADCLIFF | first drafts of stories/poems/essays + interviews with authors | producers of @failsafepodcast

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“This unfinished story was written in 1963, in a notebook directly following the first draft of the short story ‘The Rule of Names.”

ISSUE 7 OUT NOW! Ft. a never-before-published draft by #UrsulaLeGuin + drafts by Carmen Maria Machado & Chris Radcliff

https://t.co/SdjcnYrNl4

[Emily Doyle @e_m_doyle]

No big deal but I interviewed a LITERARY HERO (and literary crush) of mine, ⁦@rokwon⁩.

She’s just as witty and wise as I could have hoped, and my conversation with her has lived rent free in my head since it ended. Now it’s up for all to read 🥲
https://t.co/6HCytIShIS

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Five minutes of literal non-stop writing, get it all out, no thinking, just words on the page, go go go

[Hillary Kelly @HillaryKelly]

What do you do when you want your writing to just loosen the fuck up already?

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Happy new year! What's everyone revising these days? We're ten drafts deep on a long short story over here...

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

Offering and receiving poetry are basically acts of love.

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

To lie next to one another in the woods.

Franz Kafka, 1920.

[John Ramsey 🐁⚔ @jramseyi]

A lot of non art people talk about how AI eliminates drudgery and allows us to "focus on being creative" As if they even know what that means.

They don't understand that the process is where the creativity happens. It's in all the small choices you make along the way.

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We'll be at the Bookfair in Iowa City on April 8 for Mission Creek Festival 2023! All lit events are free & open to the public, but if you want the full festival experience, early bird passes are on sale now at https://t.co/F92PJlyFPh @missioncreek

[Imogen West-Knights @ImogenWK]

my little while ago friend and i made a list of all possible novel plots and it has kind of ruined reading for me. enjoy x

[Terena Elizabeth Bell, author TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE @TerenaBell]

I took my 1st writing class at 15 & have been in more than I can count since. One thing they all have in common is no one ever teaches how to edit. Meet @draftjournal, my favorite #awp22 find: Finished stories beside their 1st drafts. This is Ursula K LeGuin’s School for Wizards.

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He’s by himself, asking table after table if they accept submissions #awp

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Joe Rogan is not who we expected to see at #awp22

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Oh my god! So much process!

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Come visit us at table 445! # AWP22

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@KatWithSword @fulmerford Kelly once said in an interview we did with her for @failsafepodcast that a bad idea is much closer to an interesting idea than a safe idea is. Pure gold.

[Caterina Zamora⚔️ Insta: @czamorawrites @Caterina_Zamora]

What do you do with "deleted scenes"? Do you save them in a separate folder just in case you might need any of them in the future? #WritingCommunity #amwriting

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Writing and the Creative Life: 14 Artists Break Down the Creative Process: Words of wisdom from filmmakers, poets, architects, sculptors, dancers, musicians, and more. https://t.co/sw5i5OnCsv #creativity #amwriting

[Lara Beth Lillibridge 🌈 @only_mama]

I don't want to brag but my writing has been called chaotic and exhausting.

[Zachary Oren Smith @ZacharyOS]

#ICYMI: Writing is revision. @draftjournal aims to sit with that messy process. @CharityNebbe spoke with editors @RachelYoder and Mark Polanzak about their new issue which includes work from Carmen Maria Machado and Ursula K. Le Guin. via @IowaPublicRadio https://t.co/tAWKLdpr0M

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@amjeddeloh Thanks so much!

[chantz, too, erolin @ChantzErolin]

the @GraywolfPress nonfiction prize opens for submissions TOMORROW 2/1 and closes 2/28

(bring em out bring em out)