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RIP John Hughes. Breakfast Club is the best primer on writing dialogue, ever.

An interesting interview series that offers 10 Questions for Poetry editors. In this installment, Mary Biddinger, editor of the Barn Owl Review.

A note to writers about making their deadlines.

If you pull a literary hoax and no one notices, have you really pulled a literary hoax?

This has nothing to do with writing, but a reporter got to see the Netflix processing center which would be like, a dream come true for me, so read about it.

Jim Baen’s Universe is closing with the April 2010 issue.

Books as flirtation (or is that flotation?) devices.

What rejections mean.

An Emerging Writers Fellowship.

Read, Write, Poem.

Support Emma Straub.

Seven Lies About Lying.

The winner of NPR’s Three Minute Fiction contest was announced.

PANK contributor Laura Marello is now reviewing books for Examiner.

Daniel Nester, another PANK contributor,   has a book forthcoming accompanied by an amusing website. Check it out.

Hint Fiction editor Robert Swartwood reports on the first week of submissions for his forthcoming Norton Hint Fiction anthology.

J.A. Tyler has redesigned the mud luscious site and it’s pretty.

Rocco Landesman will serve as the new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts.

The AWP 2010 schedule is shaping up. Some see us at our panel and visit us at the Bookfair.

Bad news for short story collections?