DeWitt Henry

Breaking Into Print: Early Stories and Insights into Getting Published (A Ploughshares Anthology)

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Includes stories by Tim O'Brien, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sue Miller, Carolyn Chute, Edward P. Jones, Janet Desaulniers, Mona Simpson, Howard Norman, Melanie Rae Thon, David Wong Louie, Susan Straight, Christopher Tilghman, David Gates, Carolyn Ferrell, and Gina Berriault. Introduction describes the "discovery" process for new writers. Headnotes reveal how the authors launched their writing careers. "Shoptalk" excerpts highlight aspects of craft. Appendix includes lists of literary magazines with advice on submissions; lists of websites and links for new writers; and lists of books about careers in writing.

Selected Works

Memoir

Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, and Meditations
Red Hen Press, 2008. 190 pp."As with any flat-out wonderful book, a few words of praise cannot begin to do it justice. But here goes: SAFE SUICIDE is elegantly written, edgy, touching, inventive, surprising in its shifts of style and form, and completely spellbinding from start to finish. Partly memoir, partly a sequence of interlocked essays, this is a book that works its way under your skin and down into your vital organs. It is really, really good."--Tim O’Brien, author of THE THINGS THEY CARRIED.

Novel

The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts
Winner of the 2000 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel

Anthology

Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss and Grief
Essays that reflect the tenacity, the strength to go forward and to love. Beacon Press, 2001. 219 pp.

Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men
Co-edited with James Alan McPherson. Beacon Press, 1999. 252 pp.

Breaking Into Print: Early Stories and Insights into Getting Published (A Ploughshares Anthology)
A collection of first or very early fiction by now prominent authors as it appeared in the prizewinning journal Ploughshares over the past three decades.

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