Barnstorm Literary Journal is currently seeking creative nonfiction–narrative, memoir, lyric, shorts and flash; send us your best work. We also publish fiction and poetry and always welcome submissions in those genres as well. Sponsored by the MFA Program at the University of New Hampshire, past contributors have included Robert Vivian, Sophronia Scott, Jessica Hendry Nelson, […]
Is it November already?? My goodness, where did 2015 go? Because the year is starting to wind down, we wanted to give you a rundown of our final workshops of the year. Access Your Inner Genius This Saturday! Time to Register! You needn’t explain particle theory, win a Pulitzer, or cure cancer in order to be […]
An interview with Sydney Parker, writer and former student or our Freelance Magazine Writing Workshop We’re celebrating today because Stacy Dacheux will be leading another Freelance Magazine Writing Workshop. We interviewed writer Sydney Parker, whose freelance work has exploded since she participated in our previous session this past spring. Below, she offers some insight into what you can expect […]
New Writing Contests Hourglass Literary Magazine Writing Contest “Hourglass Literary Magazine announces its maiden competition for: best short story, best essay, best poem. Awards The winning entry in each category (short story, essay and poem) will receive US$1000; The jury, comprising of highly respected authors: Sibelan Forrester, Jelena Lengold, and John K. Cox have the […]
An interview with Tracy DeBrincat When did you first consider yourself a “Writer?” I realized the power of being a lower-case w writer in the third grade, when I wrote an essay based on the storyline from the then-popular stage musical, “Hair.” I was a total plagiarist – hey, I was only 9! — but […]
How Poetry Can Benefit Your Prose Many prose writers also write poetry, or at least make a habit of reading poetry. Practicing the art of writing poetry can only benefit your overall writing. Here are a few reasons why: Imagery and Specificity Imagery is one of the most important tools in poetry. It can reveal and inform […]
5 New Resources for Writers The Big Brick Review – Essay Contest, deadline Feb 17 “The Big Brick Review is a nonfiction online journal that seeks personal essays which build on the narrative of our lives, finding new insight to old struggles…old insight to new struggles…and all shades-of-gray in between. Now accepting submissions for the […]
7/16/14 – “I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 weeks since [the group coaching meeting] I attended at your house and I haven’t emailed to say THANK-YOU!! I’m slowly taking some of your awesome advice! That writer’s group was sssooo helpful. I’ve found a few meet-ups that I’ve gone to where people write from a […]
We thought we’d dive a little deeper with our poetry workshop leader, Sarah Eggers, since she specializes in getting writers to dig deeper with her innovative poetry workshops that often incorporate art into the writing process. When did you know that poetry was the form for you? What are the gifts that poetry offers you as […]
Landing on the Right Form and Genre Many writers have jumped from fiction to memoir and back again between drafts, when figuring out how to tell an autobiographical story. Or a writer might try their material as a poem in one draft, and then as flash fiction in the next. For a historical fiction piece that I’m […]