November is National Novel Writing Month. This tradition started in 1999 with a challenge- to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. It’s grown into a non-profit and tool known as NaNoWriMo.
The competition is co-sponsored by the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and the James Jones Literary Society. A total of 627 entries were submitted this year.
He wrestled with faith, doubt and his own flawed humanity, translating those struggles into novels that described the chaos and contradictions of life, and his writing became a mirror for readers ...
In Yael van der Wouden’s debut novel, “The Safekeep,” the writer spins an erotic thriller out of the Netherlands’ failure to face up to the horrors of the Holocaust. By Nina Siegal Nick ...
The English writer Sarah Moss brings her trademark subtlety and sense of the ominous to her harrowing memoir. By Sylvia Brownrigg In “Night of Power,” Robert Fisk’s posthumous war stories ...