Dear WriteByNighter, Considering that these emails are meant to be newsletters, I
should probably occasionally pack one with news and take a week off from my usual blather. First I want to talk about Tom Andes, who in April celebrated his 10-year anniversary with WriteByNight. For more than half of those years, Tom has also been my personal writing coach, offering me a consistent sporadic (sorry, Tom) glimpse of what it's like to be on the other side of the writer-coach dyad. Our conversations are wide-ranging, and I always come away with deeper insight into my own work. We're excited for the release of Tom's detective novel, Wait There Till You Hear From Me, available later this year from Crescent City Books. And in equally cool news, Tom
will appear in the 2024 Best American Mystery Stories, twelve years after he first placed a story in that renowned anthology. If you can't wait, you'll find Tom's story, "Never Mind in Two Thousand," over at Action, Spectacle. Congrats, Tom! Thank you for ten years of hard work on behalf of WBN writers, and for five years of even harder work as the external force acting on my inertia. In other staff news, we have a new writing coach! Brooke Segarra is a writing mentor at Girls Write Now, earned her MFA at the New School, and has pubbed in Hobart, Maudlin House, and others. Brooke is actively taking new writers and is eager to work with you on your fiction and creative nonfic. Reply to this email to discuss. Welcome, Brooke! WBN coach Alex Myers has sold his murder mystery novel (Alex's first such book) to Severn House, an imprint of heavy hitter Canongate Books. With a working title of Old Boys, New Rules, the novel is due in autumn 2026. The book, Alex tells us, is "set at an elite New England
boarding school who has just hired its first woman head of school and is undertaking an investigation into historic sexual assaults... unearthing tales and traditions that the old boys would like to keep hidden." Congrats, Alex! Sounds like another page-turner. In April, the Midwest Writing Center asked our Tariq
Shah to be one of its featured poets for National Poetry Month! Watch and listen along as Tariq reads his poems "Eraser" and "Driver." And finally (for now), erstwhile WBN coach Lydi Conklin has just launched their debut novel, Songs of
No Provenance, with Catapult Books! This is Lydi's second book with Catapult, following their 2023 story collection Rainbow Rainbow. Among the awesome writers who have blurbed the book are other former WBN coaches
Jessamine Chan and R.O. Kwon. It's a reunion! About Songs of No Provenance, Booklist writes, "Conklin’s vivid debut novel ... portrays a complicated musician at a personal and professional crossroads. Conklin crafts an absorbing exploration of the push-and-pull of the
authentic self." OK, that's a lot. I was going to segue artfully into all of the similar exciting news from you WriteByNighters, but let's put a pin in that. What can I say? Our staff is so impressive that I can't help but go on and on
and on. So keep an eye on this space and soon enough I'll go on and on and on and on about all the cool stuff y'all have been up to! David Duhr
Co-founder, WriteByNight
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