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August 8, 2016

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 Get your writing back on the rails

We've all been there: The laundry's piling up, the dishes are still in the sink, you've got a big project due in the morning...and your novel sits sadly in the corner, neglected for yet another day. 

 

Sometimes the only solution is to get away from it all and just write. But maybe a fancy organized writing retreat just isn't in your budget this year. So why not plan your own?

 

That's exactly what writer Valentine J. Brkich did when she needed a dedicated writing getaway. Inspired by Amtrak's writer-in-residency program, she planned a DIY "mini-residency" – and came back refreshed, inspired, and with 10 hours of solid writing time under her belt. 

 

  Read her tips on planning your own DIY retreat >> 


 

Submit by August 31st!

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Julia Alvarez: In the time of discovery

In 2013, Julia Alvarez was presented with the National Medal of Arts by President Obama for her “extraordinary storytelling.” This storytelling, with its intricate twists and turns, is layered with substantive ideas and themes – deeply human ones, both personal and societal. Julia Alvarez has fascinated readers, and writers, too, since her highly successful debut novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, about the difficult process of assimilation into a new culture. We spoke with Alvarez about the key elements of her life and work as a novelist, poet, and researcher.

 

Read our interview >>

 

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Win The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar!

  This week we're giving away a novel by award-winning novelist and memoirist Thrity Umrigar: The World We Found. It's the "powerful," "luminous" story of four Bombay university students reuniting 30 years after their college days. "The World We Found is stunning in its credibility and nuance. . . . This is a novel that rewards reading, and even re-reading," says the Boston Globe. 

 

Sound like your summer-reading cup of tea? Enter by 11:59 pm on August 14th for your chance to win! (And congratulations to Gary S. from Pittsburgh, our winner from last week's giveaway.)

 

Enter the giveaway >>

 

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