On Friday, August 10, 2018, I’m humbled and happy to participate in an amazing event in New York City. Susan Shapiro, best-selling author and past guest of Behind the Prose, is NOTORIOUS for her instant gratification essay classes in NYC. Now, she’s compiled her strategy,
I’m excited to announce that Behind the Prose will do a live podcast recording at the annual writing conference hosted by Hippocampus Magazine. At Hippocamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers this August in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I’ll be interviewing debut author Krystal Sital about her
I don’t remember when I discovered Lorem Ipsum text. It could have been in the late 90s when I was using PageMaker to design my college newspaper’s features section. It might have been around 2005 when I took an HTML course at a local community college
By: Avery Smith, Editorial Assistant My second day at the convention was even better than the first day. All of the workshops that I sat in were very insightful and engaging. The convention started at 9:00am, which was a little hard for me to wake
By: Avery Smith, Editorial Assistant My first day at the Associate Collegiate Press (ACP) National College Media Convention was truly eventful. It was my first time visiting Washington D.C. and I was taken away by the city’s beauty. After we checked in at the hotel
I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to share my writing in the “Daily Shouts” column in The New Yorker online. Today, the column published “Hacks For Dealing With Your Closetful Of Apple Boxes.” This piece was born out of a Facebook post (maybe an Instagram one?)
This month, the September 2016 issue of The Writer hits newsstands. The magazine’s cover story was my article, “The Science of Submission!” My grad school mentor, Susan Shapiro, always says writers will be successful if they “Write about your obsessions.” And this article is certainly
Hey Behind the Prose Peeps! I’m super excited to tell you that I’ve teamed up again with Creative Nonfiction Magazine to bring you three amazing podcasts from the Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference on May 27-29, 2016 in Pittsburgh, PA. Last year, I brought you an
This week I’m finishing up the transcription of Dinty W. Moore’s show and the upcoming podcast with Jessica Contrera, reporter at The Washington Post, and I got an extra boost of strength when Jennifer Niesslein, editor and founder of the online literary journal Full Grown People,
I’m going to urge you to get in where you fit in. And that means wedging yourself into the gaggle of folks who’ve listened to episode 29 of Behind the Prose featuring essayist Sharisse Tracey. The show hit #1 the week that I released it, and
Hey Behind the Prosers, I’m super happy to share my latest piece which appears in none other than the esteemed Chronicle of Higher Education. “What I’m Reading: ‘How Learning Works’” went live on the site today and will be in the print issue this week.
I’m considering changing the name of this blog to Behind the Serendipty. I’ve written about it before with the spooky intersection of John Updike, Reading, PA, The Writers’ Almanac, and Garrison Keillor. Early this morning, about 1 a.m., in the middle of my insomnia, I tried
A couple weeks ago, I told you about how Scrivener, a software for writers, is helping me become a more organized writer. Here’s two more tidbits that I’ve picked up from pecking away in the program. 1. If I have a random thought, I can
Thanks to all your efforts, memoirist Kate Walter is now #1 in writing podcasts on Blogtalkradio. I hope you enjoyed the episode and continue to share it with your friends! If you liked it, please leave a review on iTunes!
I found this post on Medium by Patrick Dunleavy: “Top Ten Style Checks for PhDs or Creative Nonfiction Writers.” If you’re a writer in the trenches, many of his ten points might be familiar. Some I was aware of, just not as he phrased it, like the “Link/Frame/Deliver”