Julia Fierro's Blog: Author of The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth - Posts Tagged "writing"

It was so much fun chatting with Brooklyn Magazine's Kristin Iversen about my novel, Cutting Teeth, The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, Brooklyn's "lit renaissance", writing, reading and more.

http://www.bkmag.com/BrooklynAbridged...

"Writing, reading, talking about writing and reading—this is how many of us practice our humanity."

I'm honored to be this week's subject at the PEN 10 interview series for PEN American Center, curated by Lauren Cerand.

http://www.pen.org/interview/pen-ten-...

So much excitement in these past few weeks--Cutting Teeth has a cover (voila!) ; I interviewed fabulous women writers at the National Book Award '5 Under 35' party; tonight I'm heading to the NBA ceremony & dinner at Cipriani (in a gown, no less, my husband in a tux for the first time since our wedding); and…Cutting Teeth can be preordered:
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Indiebound
Powell's City of Books
My publisher's website


If you preorder, email me your proof of purchase and I’ll enter your name in a special "preorder Cutting Teeth contest" to win a hand-knitted scarf/hat combo.
Knitted by yours truly, of course.

I hope to be knitting a lot in the next 6 months, outfitting CUTTING TEETH readers in warm woolly goods.

Thank you to everyone who has already supported me and Cutting Teeth, whether through pre-ordering the book, or sharing the book cover over the social media grapevine, or just sharing my excitement.
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Also, here is a discussion of sexism in the literary world I was honored to contribute to.
http://brooklynbased.com/blog/2013/11...
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Also, also, I’ll be reading at the amazing WORD Brooklyn bookstore on Friday, December 6th with Chelsea Hodson, Joseph Rippi, and special guest, Kevin Sampsell, to celebrate the release of Kevin new book, This Is Between Us, from Tin House Books.
The reading is sponsored by Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2013/10/2...
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Workshop your fiction with me!
I promise it will be fun, inspiring, and the most thorough feedback ever. I love to talk, teach & discuss the craft of fiction.

July 2014: I’m teaching two workshops—a week-long MFA Application Prep Workshop and a weekend Novel-Writing Workshop in late July at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
The 2014 summer schedule and registration will be up, and open, soon.
http://bit.ly/1fVOXyU

September 2014: I’m teaching a week-long fiction workshop on gorgeous Madeline Island School of the Arts in Wisconsin from 9/15-9/19.
Registration for The Craft Of Fiction: Writing The Short Story And The Novel is open now.
http://bit.ly/I3Dqls

http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/one...

My responses on how NOT writing can turn out be a good thing; confessions of my many one-night-stands with novels; writing while working; writing while parenting; self-loathing; motivation; sharing your work, and the ways I tricked myself into not giving up in the 10+ years it took me to reach publication.
Thank you to Rebecca Meacham for the inspiring questions.
My favorite: "So not-writing can actually be good for writing a novel?"
Make sure to check out the great interviews with other novelists, including Dean Bakopoulos, Allison Lynn and Celeste Ng, and wisdom from Cristina Henriquez, Rebecca Land Soodak, Leah Stewart, and Ploughshares’ blog editor Andrew Ladd.