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Meet the authors who will work with @luxlotus to get expert advice on book publicity as part of Poets & Writers's Get the Word Out program! debutiful.net/2022/11/29/ann…

Tomorrow, December 5, at 7PM EST we are hosting a special virtual event that will include readings from the 5 Over 50 authors featured in our latest issue, as well as a conversation about their individual literary and life journeys. To RSVP visit: at.pw.org/5Over50Event20…

“My advice boils down to this: Don’t send your work to presses you don’t genuinely love or that don’t align with the kind of writing you do; your book deserves better.” Straight talk from Christine Stroud of Autumn House Press: at.pw.org/AERStroud

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Late Night with Seth Meyers interview, Percival Everett talks about how a game of tennis influenced the premise of his National Book Award–winning novel, James. at.pw.org/PercivalEverett

Join our features editor India Lena González this evening at 7PM EST for a virtual celebration of the remarkable authors featured in our 5 Over 50 2024! RSVP here: at.pw.org/5Over50Event20…

We feature three new novels in our new installment of #PageOne: Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow (Tin House), Ben Grossberg’s The Spring Before Obergefell (Univ Nebraska Press), and Padma Viswanathan’s The Charterhouse of Padma (Godine). (Melanie Cheng) at.pw.org/PageOne2025x1

Our virtual event celebrating this year’s 5 Over 50 authors (Suzette Mullen, Dorsía Smith Silva, Uchenna Awoke, Deborah Jackson Taffa, and Parul Kapur) starts in an hour. You won’t want to miss it! RSVP here: at.pw.org/5Over50Event20…

#ClipOfTheDay: In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast with host Jenna Seery, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about how he wrote the many characters and perspectives in the third book of his series, The Third Realm. at.pw.org/Knausgaard

In line with its mission of supporting “marginalized artists” facing “restrictive systems of conventional publication,” Center for Book Arts offers a new opportunity that provides mentorship and a stipend for BIPOC writers to launch their publishing projects. at.pw.org/CBAIncubator

The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic book of essays on poetry and influence by Michael Collier, and #PWWritingPrompts on postmodern structures, taboos, and true stories. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Tucson Humanities Festival event held UA Poetry Center, scholar Jacqueline Barrios introduces Brandon Som, who reads from his Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection, Tripas (Georgia Review Books). at.pw.org/BrandonSom

#FromTheArchive: Write a scene about a very specific experience using only sensory imagery to describe what happened. #PWNonfictionPrompt: at.pw.org/SensoryScene

#FromTheArchive: “When I need inspiration I start giving more time and attention to the world around me. I write an e-mail to someone I miss. I make a mix of the best songs ever,” writes Kirk Lynn in #WritersRecommend. at.pw.org/KirkLynn

“How can you find the more evocative ending? Start from the final sentence and strike more than you keep.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Amy Butcher offers advice on how to approach revising the endings of books and essays. at.pw.org/Revision2

Kimberly Blaeser, Angie Cruz, Kiese Laymon, and the Grove Atlantic editorial team will be honored by Poets & Writers at our 2025 Gala on March 24. Congratulations to these exemplary literary citizens! at.pw.org/Gala25PR Kiese Laymon Angie Cruz Grove Atlantic

#ICYMI: Watch Poets & Writers features editor India Lena González introduce the 2024 cohort of “5 Over 50” debut authors for a virtual reading: Suzette Mullen, Dorsía Smith Silva, Uchenna Awoke, Deborah Jackson Taffa, and Parul Kapur. #ClipOfTheDay: at.pw.org/5Over50Reading…

“I studied with Gordon Lish and he once said: ‘Never explain, never complain.’” In today’s Ten Questions, Lily Tuck discusses her writing process for The Rest Is Memory, out now from Liveright Books. at.pw.org/10Q4Tuck

.regina brooks, the new president of Association of American Literary Agents, will convene educators next March to “create a road map for launching” the first creative writing MFA at a historically Black college. Read more in Katie Arnold-Ratliffe’s (Katie Arnold-Ratliff) interview: at.pw.org/BrooksLeadsAALA

#ClipOfTheDay: In this video, the late Nikki Giovanni reads a selection of her poems and speaks about her life and career for the Wright Conversations series hosted by Museum of African American History and PBS Books. at.pw.org/WrightGiovanni