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I’m in Washington for the first time, attending the wedding of two dear friends in Port Townsend. I’ve never visited the Pacific Northwest before; it’s taking my breath away.

People puzzle over my last name. No one’s sure how to pronounce it. Syllables are added and subtracted, spellings are randomized by phonetics. “C as in Cat, E, D as in dog,” I’ll say, and the first letter people write down will still be “S.” It’s not a common name. It’s Slovenian. This morning, on…

I’ve suspended my cell service for the month of July because…. …I’m in Prague! This month, I’m a fiction TA for WMU’s Prague Summer Program. I’ve never been here before, but it only took one Czech beer and one plate of goulash and dumplings to fall in love. Workshop starts tomorrow. If you want to…

It’s National Poetry Month, and there’s plenty of poetry to celebrate: Ploughshares has just released its spring issue, edited by Nick Flynn, which features so many wonderful poems, essays, and stories by fantastic writers. Their online selections rotate each day (when Glenn’s poem returns, it will be here), but you can also support Ploughshares and…

Why fret endlessly over what to name your novel when this generator can name it for you? My Highbrow Literary Novel Title is The Astonishing Despair of Millionaires. Find Your Highbrow Literary Novel Title today!

Samuel Amadon over at Coldfront. Really all any future applicant needs to read on this topic: The next year I applied to sixteen programs. It was all I thought about. Not writing, and not going to a program, but the list of programs I was applying to. Read the rest.

Thank goodness for that. From Kate Petersen’s interview with Caitlin Horrocks at The Rumpus: I once had a really aggravating conversation at a writer’s conference with someone who complained that publishing was all about connections and networking. I said that I genuinely believed that great work got recognized. He said sure, great work would, but…