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First you’ve got to think of something . . .
Agatha Christie “It’s splendid that you’ve rung me up,” she said. “I was just going out to give a Talk on How I Write My Books. Now I can get…
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Fly on the Wall (part 2): A brief interview with 2011 Washington Prize winner Mike White (by Leslie McGrath)
Yesterday I blogged about judging the Washington Prize. 2011 was The Word Works' first year using an electronic submission method, which resulted in about a fifty percent increase in submissions. Once the decision was…
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More About Jeremy Twill by Martin Stannard
I made mention in my first post of the poet Jeremy Twill. He is not very well-known, to be honest, and those of his poems that have seen the light of publishing day were…
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Fly on the Wall: Judging a Poetry Book Prize by Committee (By Leslie McGrath)
Most poets with fewer than three books and a stellar international reputation rely on the book contests in order to get their collections published. This may not be the case in the future,…
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Looking at China, from China (by Martin Stannard)
My university, above, but I don’t think you can see me. I live in China. I came here in 2005, and except for the 2007/8 academic year when I returned to England to take…
