Publishing is a world of unspoken rules and traditions that one can, and does, unknowingly violate. It’s kind of like navigating a minefield, but this AWP 2018 panel offered the beginnings of a map.
Author: Travis Kurowski
Travis Kurowski is the coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century and editor of Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award and a Foreword IndieFab Award. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, Little Star, Poets & Writers, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor at York College of Pennsylvania and lives with his daughters and dog in York, PA.
Working on Writing While Working: The Life-Work-Art Balance
Every writer deals with impostor syndrome to a greater or lesser degree—uncertain just how much they’re allowed to think of themselves as a writer, and how much they should let this identity dictate their lives.
Breaking Down the Nonfiction Book Proposal
A book proposal is a regular part of publishing a nonfiction book for most writers. Novelists and poets still typically need a full manuscript for publishers to consider, but for nonfiction books it’s quite the opposite—publishers and agents don’t even necessarily want an entire book to consider.