As you may have noticed, I’ve been away from this blog for a while. In fact, I spent a lot of the winter and fall away in general—I was lucky enough to spend some time at Ucross in Wyoming, where I got a lot of writing done, and also bought this snazzy cowboy hat: One […]

The paperback version of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self is out this week. If you know someone who needs a copy, but prefers their books in convenient lightweight form, let them know! NPR has just kicked off its 7th round of the Three Minute Fiction contest, and I am guest judging. Details here. I’ve […]

On June 27th, I’ll be reading at Rutgers, Camden as part of the Summer Writing Conference.  While workshops are only for registered students, all of the conference readings are open to the public. On June 28th, I’ll be reading with Tayari Jones at the Free Library of Philadelphia. (I’ll have an afternoon to spend in Philly […]

Recently, a colleague and I were headed to a department party for a colleague’s retirement. We were quite proud of ourselves for timing our public transit such that we’d arrive at the party exactly on time to be fashionably late, that is, until we realized that we’d been viewing my phone map of the walk from the […]

I’m not going to get way into the argument about Common’s White House visit, in part because I refuse to give a certain news network attention for their temper tantrum, in part because I’m committed to keeping this substantially a blog about writing (not because I think writers shouldn’t have and share opinions about the […]

I don’t ever tell my students to “write what they know,” for fear they’ll misinterpret and limit themselves to an unfortunate degree. The phrase itself has always seemed to me alarmingly imprecise, and I’ve wondered about a better way to express the portion of the idea that’s useful. When the phrase “a lion as taxidermied […]

This Saturday I am headed to the Baltimore CityLit Fest, which has a really exciting schedule of readers. If you’re local, drop by! I also have a self-interview and a short excerpt from one of the stories in the book up over at The Nervous Breakdown, where I was lucky enough to be one of their featured […]

Let’s start with the apologies: It’s been a while since I have had time to post anything substantial here. That’s not for lack of interesting writing related news: I have things to say about Huckleberry Finn! I have things to say about The Help! I have things to say about the march-madness-for-writers that is the […]

Happy 2011! I’ve updated the events page with information about January and February readings and appearances.

Being both author and manager of this blog, when I venture into the blog statistics page, I get to see things like what search terms people are googling to get here. Usually this is straightforward, occasionally it’s amusing—I can often tell which searches are meant for the other Danielle Evans, and having a long and […]