Tuesdays with Story

Writer’s Mail
Tuesdays with Story
January 29, 2015

““But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?”
Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don’t.” ― Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Who’s up Next?
February 3: Lisa McDougal (chapter, Tebow Family Secret), Amber Boudreau (???), Mike Rickey (poems), Kashmira Sheth & Amit Trivedi (chapter, novel), Alicia Connolly-Lohr (chapter 11, Coastie Girl), Millie Mader (chapter 60, Life on Hold), and Judith McNeil (???).
February 10: 2nd and 4th – unknown
February 17: Alicia Connolly-Lohr (chapter 12, Coastie Girl), Andy Brown (chapter, The Last Library), Pat Edwards (???), Kashmira Sheth & Amit Trivedi (chapter, novel), Mike Rickey (poems), and Jerry Peterson (chapter 7-8, Rooster’s Story).

Crowd-sourcing the Publishing Industry
Kindle Scout is reader-powered publishing for new, never-before-published books. It’s a place where readers help decide if a book gets published. Selected books will be published by Kindle Press and receive 5-year renewable terms, a $1,500 advance, 50% eBook royalty rate, easy rights reversions and featured Amazon marketing. https://kindlescout.amazon.com/about

Also! Amazon announced there will be no 2015 ABNA contest. Instead, it’s promoting the Kindle Scout program. There’s a lot of disappointment out there as shown in the comments following the announcement but also opportunity. http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20breakthrough%20novel%20awards/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx6TTNZ0V5TDQ5&cdMsgID=MxG7F51FXM9NR6&cdMsgNo=1&cdPage=1&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=TxO6AUG772EU4X#MxG7F51FXM9NR6 -Thanks, Alicia

University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing – Fellowships $30,000
Since 1986, the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing has provided time, space, and an intellectual community for writers working on a first or second book of poetry or fiction. Altogether, our poetry and fiction fellows have published over a hundred full-length collections and novels, many of them winning major national honors. At present, the Institute offers up to five year-long fellowships each year.
Each of these fellowships carries with it a $30,000 stipend ($27,000 plus a $3,000 prize paid in August), generous health benefits, and a one-course-per-semester teaching assignment in intermediate or advanced undergraduate creative writing. Fiction and poetry fellows are asked to give one public reading during the fellowship year. Additionally, all fellows participate in determining the recipients of the annual Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, as well as the Program in Creative Writing’s undergraduate writing contests. Along with faculty, fellows also serve on the committees selecting the following year’s Institute fellows.

Details and frequently asked questions regarding the fellowships can be found on the applications page of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing website. Applications to the poetry, fiction, and HEAF fellowships must be submitted online between January 15 and February 28. For full information go here https://wicw.submittable.com/submit

Last Word. . .
“Half my life is an act of revision.” – John Irving