Brooklyn Editorial

04/07/2017

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Some credit the rise of social media. Others attribute it to a flourishing culture of self-expression. Whatever the reason, colleges across the United Stat

01/04/2017

For the complicated writers out there.

This is a pretty neat list of somewhat more complicated emotions.

12/13/2016

Here's a magazine for the writing dads out there.

A quarterly print journal exploring contemporary fatherhood. Through essays, interviews, editorials, art, and photography KQ aims to highlight creative individuals whose work and lives are inseparable from their role as a parent.

11/04/2015

For anyone interested in seeing what Medium.com is all about, you can follow the link to my new series of letter-essays written to my newborn son. Don't forget to Follow me once you get there. Feel free to share.

There will be days that balance perfectly your heart and head, your yesterdays intersecting with today to shine with per…

06/11/2015

I had the privilege of studying poetry with Juan Felipe and can't imagine a better poet laureate. I was fresh out of the army in 1991 and starting college; he was 40 and only a year removed from the Iowa Writers Workshop, but with 4 books already under his belt, and a new teaching gig at Southern Illinois. We formed a strong connection and he was just about the most ideal teacher I could've had just after returning from the Gulf and leaving the military.

He taught me how to see like a poet, to encounter the world through poetry, to take every moment and squeeze it dry on the page. Talking poetry with him was like diving into a deep river and being swept along. More than any contemporary or even long-dead poet I can think of, Juan Felipe has succeeded like Whitman succeeded. His poetry is as vast as America. His lines blow across the page like fast clouds or seas of wheat. His voices echo all of us.

Juan Felipe taught me to blow up the page, blow out all the borders, to love the chaos of language and image and experience. Sadly, he stayed only a year at SIU; the southern edges of the Midwest weren't quite right for a SoCal man.

After he left, I studied for two years with Rodney Jones, another master poet, though of a wildly different breed. Where Juan Felipe taught me the poem as wild laughter, Rodney taught me the poem as discipline, as carefully shaped as the most delicate marble statue. The greatest one line lesson Juan Felipe ever gave me was "just goddamn write it." From Rodney: "You're a hell of a writer; you just don't know yet when what you're writing is any good." Juan Felipe taught me how to put it on the page; Rodney how to make sure others wanted to read it.

Now Juan Felipe can blow out everyone's borders and help us all get it on the page.

The son of migrant farmworkers, Mr. Herrera writes experimental poems that focus on Mexican-American identity.

11/22/2014

I know, I know--you're working on that novel, that screenplay, that poem, that memoir, anything but wasting time on social media.

Buuuut, you need a platform, an audience, engagement, interaction. You need social media.

Authors should stop promising to “get better at” social media eventually and start now!

11/19/2014

Digital Book World is preparing their 2015 Author Survey examining what authors want, how they're going about getting it, and what's changing in the worlds of traditional, indie, and self-publishing.

If you're a published writer, an unpublishing writer, an aspiring writer, or just plain old aspiring, follow the link and take the survey.

Digital Book World and Writer's Digest launch a third annual Author Survey, seeking input from authors and aspiring authors on publishing experiences.

11/17/2014

Thinking about crowdfunding your book project? This excerpt from The Art of Asking or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help examines crowdfunding and artistic freedom and development, as well as the controversies that come with asking your network for help.

BklnEdtrl wants to be part of your network. If you're looking to crowdfund that book you've always wanted to publish, contact us today.

One of my favorite yoga teachers once told a story during class.Since ever, in China, bamboo farmers have planted baby bamboo shoots deep into the ground. And then, for three years, nothing happens.

10/27/2014

Copper Nickel is back! Founded by my close friend, the poet Jake Adam York, the Nickel quickly became one of the best literary journals out there. Sadly put on hiatus following his untimely death in 2012 at age 40, it's recently been revived and I expect it to be better than ever. Send them your poems, stories, essays...

Copper Nickel, the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver, is published twice a year, in March and September.

10/23/2014

Working on your dissertation in the humanities or social sciences and need some outside help with structure and writing? With a background in academics and scholarly publishing, both as a writer and an editor for major scholarly publishers, I'll help make your arguments stronger, your writing better, your research complete.

Check out the site, drop me a line to let me know what I can do to help.

BklnEdtrl will help you write and publish the book you’ve always talked about. From rough draft through final production, we can make your book happen.

10/21/2014

A blatant promotion of the man himself? Yes. Useful info for self- and indie publishers nonetheless? Also yes.

My most recent book, “Choose Yourself!” sold 53,000 copies since it’s release on June 3 [update December 30 - just hit over 100,000 copies], hit the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list, was No. 1 on Amazon for all non-fiction books for a few days and is still flirting with No. 1 in its various categ…

10/20/2014

CHURN Magazine Summer/Fall 2014 is now available. Check out the site so you can find out where to buy a copy of this full-color print arts quarterly.

Guidelines for submissions: Send all submissions /queries inquiries to: [email protected]

1.It is highly advisable to read the latest issue of CHURN, Vol. 2, No. 1, before submitting to determine if CHURN is right for your work. Copies may be ordered online, or acquired at B&N and better independent bookstores.

2.All submitted work must be either currently unpublished, or published only in an extremely limited edition. Contact us for information about any work intended for submission that has been previously published.

3.All submitted work must be original. Plagiarized or “borrowed” works will not be accepted.

4.POETS: Send no more than 5 sample pages of your best unpublished work.

5.PROSE FICTION/NON-FICTION WRITERS: Send 5 sample pages, plus a short synopsis of the work.

6.ALL POETS & WRITERS: After reading submitted samples, if we are interested in seeing more of your work, we will contact you. Allow 60 days for notification.

7.Do not send photographs, artwork, or other visual stimuli to the [email protected] email address.

8.An accompanying short writer’s bio is permissible, but all literature will be either accepted or rejected on the individual merit of the submitted work alone, and not because of former publishing credits, awards, or misc. connections or network, etc.

9.Simultaneous submissions are discouraged. If another publication accepts work that you have submitted to CHURN, please contact us immediately.

10.Electronic submissions are preferred. For paper, hardcopy submissions, send COPIES of the original documents only to: Michael Annis, Literary Director, P.O. Box 2411, Englewood, CO 80150

11.Include your name and all pertinent contact information with your submission.

12.As CHURN will be distributed in Europe soon, works by foreign poets & writers, or Americans abroad, are highly encouraged. Works must be pre-translated into English before submitting, and both the original language version and the translation should be submitted simultaneously.