Advice for Writers

This blog provides advice to writers on their literary work. See the end of this post for links on these topics: How can you get the full benefit of workshops? How can you work best with your mentor? What, when, and how should you publish?

Friday, September 6, 2013

Why Are Certain Writers Popular in Other Countries?

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I remember when I first started traveling abroad, if French people realized I was an American interested in books, they wanted to tell me ho...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Has the Best Literature Already Been Written?

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It’s very easy to fall into the mindset that there’s not much point in writing anymore, since the best writing has already been written. Af...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Getting the Most from Your Writing Workshop, Part 7: What to Do Afterwards

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OK, your workshop is over, and you want to revise the piece that you brought to the group. Where do you begin? I think every writer handles...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

On Being the Child of a Writer

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I have met a few writers who are children of writers. I believe that all of us with writer parents live with our progenitors’ careers and w...
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Friday, June 7, 2013

Writers I Can't Stop Reading, Part 7: Sandra Cisneros

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Sandra Cisneros zoomed onto the literary scene in 1984 with the novel The House on Mango Street . Since then, her work has bec...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Who Is the Audience for Your Writing?

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I sometimes imagine that the reader of my work is a young woman living one hundred years from now in a remote village at the opposite end of...
Friday, May 24, 2013

A Tribute to Barbara Oliver (1927–2013)

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This week the San Francisco Bay Area received the very sad news that the wonderful actor, director, and arts administrator Barbara Oliver pa...
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Zack Rogow is an award-winning author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. Zack’s memoir about his dad, the writer Lee Rogow, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is available for creative writing manuscript critiques. You can contact him at zrogow at berkeley dot edu. His other recent books include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio, and The Number Before Infinity. You can watch a brief documentary on his writing or watch him read on YouTube. He's the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press. The entries in this blog are Copyright © 2011 to 2026 by Zack Rogow.
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