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Coming Up: A Guest Editor Gig

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Meakin Armstrong

I just finished a guest-edit of a magazine and it’s got some of my best nonfiction writing in it. And the people I got to also write? Wow. The magazine comes out in December. Hint: the magazine is concerned with art and … Continue reading →

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Faulty Plug-ins and Fiction Editing

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Meakin Armstrong

A faulty plug-in crashed my site and left it a total wreck. It was awful, but all is fine now. In the intervening period, I’ve been editing a short story collection from a Canadian writer that’s set in the area … Continue reading →

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Book Party for E.C. Osondu’s Voice of America in NYC

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Meakin Armstrong

Where The Gallery Bar, 120 Orchard St, New York, NY When Tuesday, November 2, 7–9 p.m. E.C. Osondu I picked his story, “Waiting” out of the slush pile. It went on to win the 2009 Caine Prize, Africa’s leading literary … Continue reading →

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Raymond Carver, Edited

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Meakin Armstrong

Anyone who has written to be published has been edited. Sometimes it’s brutal (I wrote some crap for Maxim that certainly qualified). Sometimes, it’s skin-flailing, but arguably inspired. Or maybe not. The New Yorker has an online-only, line-by-line analysis of … Continue reading →

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