Imagine this: People all over Boston can pick up a free booklet containing your short story. And, in addition to being read by thousands, you’re also feted: at a gala celebration, the mayor of Boston hands you the key to the city.
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Your story conquers Boston
Should you sell your backlist?
Let’s say Vintage published your novel in 1999, and the book drifted into oblivion a few years later. Guess what: you own the rights to your novel again. Why? In the fine print of most publishing contracts, there’s a clause about the after-life of the book. Once it’s out of print, the book belongs to the author.
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Fiction and poetry grants & awards
The Astrea Foundation will award $10,000 grants to two lesbian poets and fiction writers. Two finalists with receive $1,500 grants. Deadline is July 15th.
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How to start an audio magazine
For a writer, I’ve been acting a little strange lately. I’ve been driving around eastern Massachusetts with a pre-amp and a pop screen and other assorted pieces of sound equipment in a large messenger bag, and wielding a folded-up microphone stand in one hand.
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Warhol fortune for writers
Yo, academics! The Warhol Foundation has just announced its 2010 grant for arts writing, with awards ranging from $3,000 to $50,000.
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25 Journalism Fellowships
The Above the Fray Fellowship, the keynote program of the John Alexander Project, for candidates with 3-5 years of professional experience who combine depth of old journalism with technical innovation of new media.
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How to use crowd-funding
This is where they became book publishers: over breakfast at a Boston-area diner. Picture a group of guys eating pancakes and discussing 19th century novels. As it happened, one of the guys, James Parker, had just started and abandoned a novel.
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A sustainable publishing house
J-School Student, Age 41: Seriously?
When I told my editor at a metro daily in the Midwest that I was leaving for New York University to get my Masters degree in journalism, he asked “Why?”
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