Winter Wheat 2016: Odds & Ends Panels Part II
Winter Wheat is only two days away! Here’s the last of our panels: “Hermit Crabs, Lyric Essays, and More: Alternatives in Nonfiction,” with Nicole L. Reber This workshop will explore hermit crab essays, braided essays, listicles, and other fun forms that can have the added benefit of helping you be more productive and turn...
Winter Wheat 2016: Odds & Ends Panels
Take a look at these miscellaneous panels we have this year! “Writing Different Cultures: To What Extent Can We Become Insiders?” with Lisa Favicchia As writers, it seems only natural that we are influenced by our travels. However, what do we risk by writing other cultures? Can we ever really become insiders, and if...
Winter Wheat 2016: Lit Techniques and Ideas Panels
Check out these great workshops at Winter Wheat! “Writing Respectfully and Accurately about Characters with Disabilities,” with Sheri Wells-Jensen, Tex Thompson, Jason Wells-Jensen and Abberley Sorg. Being inclusive means more than choosing to designate one of your characters as disabled. It means (1) asking yourself why you want to include that character, (2) doing the...
Winter Wheat 2016: Publishing Panel Features
Winter Wheat is only two weeks away! Interested in the field of publication? Check out these panels on publishing at this year’s writing festival! “Market Yourself as a Writer,” with Nicole L. Reber Marketing starts long before your book is published. It should start before your book is even written. Springboarding from the...
Winter Wheat 2016: Fiction Panel Features Part III
Fiction, fiction, fiction. Check out the last of our fiction panels at this years Winter Wheat! “Good Girl/Bad Girl: Creating Complexity in Female Characters,” with Bridget Adams Have you ever begun reading a novel and known exactly what to expect from the female characters? Have you ever wondered why your own female characters seem...
Winter Wheat 2016: Fiction Panel Features Part II
Fiction galore! Here’s some more fiction-focused panels at this years Winter Wheat! “The Kitchen Sink, the Teaspoon: Telling It All vs. Telling Barely Enough,” with Brad Modlin When should writing go maximalist and pack itself full with details, complexities, chewy sentences, asides, long paragraphs, regret from high school days, and nostalgia for the tangerines your...
Winter Wheat 2016: Fiction Panel Features
Do you like fiction? Check out these 5 panels at this year’s Winter Wheat! “On Writing Horror: Avoiding Ghastly Clichés,” with Olivia Zolciak and Tanja Vierrether Creepy dolls, dark basements, experiments gone wrong, and groups splitting up and encountering their inevitable doom. It’s all been done before, but there’s something about the horror genre...
Spotlight on Teresa Dederer, Fiction Editor
Mid-American Review welcomes our new Fiction Editor, Teri Dederer, to the staff! Teri grew up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently a second-year graduate student pursuing an M.F.A. in fiction from Bowling Green State University, where she takes long walks alongside...
An Interview with writer Sam Martone
In this interview, Former fiction editor Lydia Munnell chats with Sam Martone. Martone’s fiction story “Night Watch at the House of Death” appears in Volume XXXVI, issue 1. I’m interested in the way ideas happen for writers—do stories start with an image or a character or a situation or are they fully formed for you?...
Accepted: “No Paper Cowboys” by Bryn Agnew
In our “Accepted” column, Mid-American Review editors discuss why they selected stories, poems, or essays for publication. In this post, Fiction Editor Tom Markham discusses the marvelous “No Paper Cowboys.” Genre: short fiction Title: “No Paper Cowboys” Author: Bryn Agnew MAR Issue: 36.1 First Line: “Your parents stand on the porch as you park your car under the...
Accepted: Night Watch At The House of Death by Sam Martone
In our “Accepted” column, Mid-American Review editors discuss why they selected stories, poems, or essays for publication. In this post, Fiction Editor Lydia Munnell discusses a story that appears in our Fall 2015 issue. Genre: Short fiction Title: Night Watch at the House of Death Author: Sam Martone MAR issue: 36.1 While reading or discussing work with...
Contest Deadlines Extended!
The weather’s changing, the clock hands have been struck back an hour, and the winter darkness is upon us. But there’s a bright spot on the horizon: MAR has extended the deadlines for the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and the James Wright Poetry Award until November 15. That’s right – you still have some precious...