Erin Wicks ’11 wanted so badly to be a book editor that she willingly took a few steps down the professional ladder to get that opportunity. She had been hired as an e-book rights assistant at ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As storytellers the world over decide to launch careers in the new year, Crazy Maple Studio, the next generation story publisher announces the ...

Literary journals pride themselves on publishing excellent fiction, but the definition of excellence varies from editor to editor. By inviting 25 editors to contribute stories they published and to ...

Rust Hills, Esquire’s longtime fiction editor, once had an ambitious and provocative idea: capture the most influential people in writing and publishing in a single graphic. The July 1963 issue of ...

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, a satire of the publishing world and modern race relations, stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, an English professor and novelist frustrated by what ...

C. Michael Curtis, who as fiction editor for the Atlantic mined 12,000 short-story submissions a year in search of undiscovered voices, turning up Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie and Louise Erdrich ...

There’s an old maxim in literature: “Write what you know.” For John Counts, that’s a fascinating journey: Sipping pop in northern Michigan bars as a child while his old man drank and talked fishing ...