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?

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Giving Yourself the Benefit of the Doubt as a Writer

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Many writers begin their literary careers with more enthusiasm than finesse or depth. There are a couple of reasons it can take years or eve...

Monday, May 10, 2021

Writing Historical Nonfiction: Interview with Gwen Strauss, Author of The Nine

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Gwen Strauss is a nonfiction writer as well as an award-winning children’s book author and poet. Her newly published nonfiction book The Ni...

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Inside the Frame: Ekphastic Poems: guest blog by Steven Winn

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This post is a guest blog by poet and art critic Steven Winn. It was, so far as I remember, the first ekphrastic poem that made its mark ...

Monday, March 29, 2021

The Hated English Teacher and Tennyson’s “Break, Break, Break”

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We all hated our tenth grade English teacher, Mr. Glicksman. In the late 1960s, a time of rebellion and questioning authority, Mr. Glicksman...

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Zack Rogow: 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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