Postscripts

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UT Press Fellowship

Every year, UT Press offers two fellowships for people who want to work in publishing. One fellowship, the UT Press Publishing Fellowship, is intended for graduates of UT Austin; the other, the James A. Michener Publishing Fellowship, is open to any applicant, although for both fellowships, preference is given to applicants with advanced degrees or those who can demonstrate advanced study or work experience beyond a baccalaureate. Fellowships begin on September 1 and end August 31, 2002. They consist of intensive training in one department (Editorial or Design and Production) but provide exposure to aspects of all other departments. The emphasis is on scholarly publishing, but much of the training applies to commercial publishing as well. Each Fellow receives $18,000, and both of them even get a parking permit! Deadline for applications is March 30; see www.utexas.edu/utpress/html/fellow.html for applications or call 471-7233.

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Creative Nonfiction Conference

The weekend of March 3-4, the Austin Writers' League will present a conference titled "Exploring the Creative in Nonfiction." Lee Gutkind (Many Sleepless Nights, An Unspoken Art), the "grandfather of creative nonfiction" who founded the Creative Nonfiction journal and is the editor of the Creative Nonfiction Reader series, will be the keynote speaker. The conference is designed to assist writers who may be looking for advice about structure and form and who would like to meet other writers working on creative nonfiction. On Saturday, Gutkind will conduct a workshop titled "The Architecture of the Creative Nonfiction Essay: Style and Substance," though there are other aspects of the conference that are devoted to the business side of writing -- how to get published, etc. Robert Draper, Don Graham, Skip Hollandsworth, Arturo Longoria, and Joe Nick Patoski, among others, are scheduled to participate. Cost is $135 for AWL members, $200 for nonmembers. Call 499-8914 for more information or see www.writersleague.org; signup lasts until February 23.

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Upcoming

Christopher Cook's first novel, Robbers, which is the noirish tale of Eddie and Ray Bob, two freaky killers on a joyride through Texas, has been receiving lots of praise, including an anonymous reviewer on Amazon: "I loved this book and so did my 73-year-old mother." Cook will be at the Barnes & Noble in Round Rock (I-35 and 1325) on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 2pm… Turk Pipkin and Harry Anderson's book Games You Can't Lose is being reissued; the authors will be at BookPeople on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 3pm… Anyone who didn't get enough of Dave Eggers last year can look forward to the forthcoming paperback publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, with 15,000 more words than the hardback. "I think this book is kind of malleable," Eggers told Vintage, which is publishing the paperback. "I've never really wanted to put it away and be done with it forever -- the second I first 'finished' it, I wanted to dig back in and change everything around. So I'm looking forward to getting back into the text, and straightening and focusing and deleting. Most of all, I'm thrilled that Vintage will be letting me include all the cool chase scenes, previously censored." In March, two authors from Eggers' McSweeney's Books, Lawrence Krauser (Lemon) and Neal Pollack (The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature) will be at BookPeople (March 14, 7pm).