Just Write. Writers Conference, Sunday, September 27th

Excited to present two panels this Sunday, September 27 at the Just Write. Writers Conference at the Bel-Air Library in Harford County, Maryland. I'll be breaking down the short story in one session, and talking about the dos and don't's of submitting to literary journals in the other. There are more than 25 panels spread over 5 sessions, including writers Jessica Anya Blau, Elisabeth Dahl, and Elissa Brent Weissman, and agent pitches as well, so there's a lot to choose from. Hope to see you there!

"Pan-America" at Style Magazine

Thrilled to have short fiction featured in the July/August issue of Baltimore Style Magazine, along with Jessica Anya Blau, Elisabeth Dahl, and Timmy Reed: Pan America

The couple at the four-mile marker of the trail has the smallest Yorkie you’ve ever seen. It eats from a collapsible bowl under the picnic table as the woman offers you a drinking for the water pump.

“Hard to get enough like that,” she says as you curl your head under the stream of water.

You fill the plastic tumbler. The people who frequent hiking trails are super nice or super crazy. Sometimes they’re both. You consider this as you join her at the table, where she is spreading egg salad on wheat bread. Her husband, muscular, head covered in a bandana, repacks their SUV. To read more, go here.

4/23/13: Toledo Reads Recommends Could You Be With Her Now (and other news)

Toldeo Reads has recommended Could You Be With Her Now in their spring reads section. It's always exciting when the word gets out from others about one's writing!

I also am finishing up an interview with Baltimore writer Elisabeth Dahl that will post on The Nervous Breakdown soon. Elisabeth's debut novel, Genie Wishes, a YA treat, just published this month this ABRAMS. I ask her about the challenges of writing literary versus YA fiction and why the books of our still hold so much power over us today. Stay tuned for it!

4/11/13: 10th Annual CityLit Festival

The 10th Annual CityLit Festival in this Saturday, April 13th in Baltimore. George Saunders is the headline (yowsers!). Other readers include Leigh Newman, Tim Wendel, Terese Svoboda, Elisabeth Dahl, and myself (I'll be reading an excerpt from the soon-to-be released The Tide King).

In conjunction, Baltimore City Paper ran a nice piece yesterday about the CityLit Project's 10 years with the CityLit Festival (and also its myriad other accomplishments under Founder Gregg Willhelm, such as programming at the Baltimore Book Festival, CityLit Press, and the Baltimore Writers Conference). You can read it here.

"Baltimore has always been a collaborative place, but I think what CityLit, along with people like Jen Michalski and Michael Kimball (of 510 Reading Series) and [CP contributors ] Deb Rudacille and John Barry with the New Mercury series made sure that the literary arts are part of the mix."