fiction

NaNoWriMo: Five Tools for Week One

November 5, 2014

As you probably know, we’re on day five of the international craze known as National Novel Writing Month. Maybe you’ve been planning your project for months and have a neat accordion folder of outlines, research, and character profiles. Or perhaps you decided yesterday to sign up for [...]

This Week’s Tweeted Writing Prompts (October 26-November 1)

November 2, 2014

Each day, we tweet writing prompts to help writers get out of their shells for the creative process. Follow us on twitter (@TSHighSociety) to be inspired daily, or subscribe to the blog to get a digest of the prompts every Sunday! Poetry Writing Prompts Sunday: Early Midterm Voting is upon [...]

This Week’s Tweeted Writing Prompts (October 19-25)

October 26, 2014

Each day, we tweet writing prompts to help writers get out of their shell for the creative process. Follow us on twitter (@TSHighSociety) to be inspired daily, or subscribe to the blog to get a digest of the prompts every Sunday! Poetry Writing Prompts Sunday: Think of a street intersection [...]

13 Classic Books and Stories to Celebrate All Hallows’ Eve

October 22, 2014

Halloween is next week and as autumn settles in, we at Tate Street High Society have been reaching for some of our favorite spooky tales. Enjoy those in the public domain online or head to your local bookstore/library for more contemporary works. 1. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter: In this [...]

This Week’s Tweeted Writing Prompts (October 12-18)

October 19, 2014

Each day, we tweet ways to help writers get out of their shell for the creative process. Follow us on twitter (@TSHighSociety) to do them each day or subscribe to the blog to get a digest of them every week! [...]

Unusual Calls for Submissions: October Edition

October 9, 2014

October is here, which means a number of your favorite lit mags have opened submissions for the spooky, the strange, and the downright pumpkin-spiced. Have a look at this month’s most unusual calls for submissions. 1. The Pinch “Feast or Famine” Audio Contest (prose, deadline [...]

Curious George (Tenth of December by George Saunders)

January 27, 2013

In his latest collection, Tenth of December (Random House), George Saunders pulls back on some of the outlandishness of his earlier stories, though not on his idiosyncratic approach to telling them, which combines the stylized fun-making of employing a debased American sociolect (rife with cliché, [...]

Fall Contests Redux (Prose Edition)

September 19, 2012

In case any of our readers of the prose-y persuasion were feeling left out by last week’s post on fall poetry contest deadlines, never fear. We’ve got you covered, too. A sampling of upcoming contests: Deadline October 1, 2012: Missouri Review: Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize [...]

Flame On, Alphabet! Kill! Kill! (The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus)

July 27, 2012

Reviewers and interviewers are billing Ben Marcus’ new novel The Flame Alphabet (Knopf) as a departure for the author, whose tricky, experimental fiction has been praised for “[making] postmodernism look like the work of preschoolers.” Which isn’t to say the book is exactly conventional, [...]

In the Press

March 10, 2012

This February, TSHS members, Elly Bookman, read with fellow fiction writer, Jon Williams in Greensboro, NC. Only their work could inspire such a poster. To read more of Bookman’s work, check out her prize winning poem “Another Thing I’d Rather Not Know About Myself” in The [...]