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• Why Knowing Your Setting is Important

  Why Knowing Your Setting is Important by Phyl Manning No matter where on this planet you “set” your story, someone or twenty someones among your readers will have been in that exact place at that particular season/time/year. . . . and will have taken copious notes. And that’s fine—if you’ve been there, too, and recall…

  Linda Ulleseit

  June 4, 2013

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• Phyl Manning: Synopsis

  Here, There & Otherwhere are in two volumes published approximately one year apart, both anthologies of narrative nonfiction. The genre by its very nature (not memoir, not autobiography) requires true-life adventure with focus never on author per se but rather on what is happening under what conditions. In narrative nonfiction, the author is the story-teller but…

  Linda Ulleseit

  June 4, 2013

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• Phyl Manning: Elephant Contest

  ELEPHANTS*PACHYDERMS ELEPHANTHOLOGY* ELEPHANTS Sure, they can paint—but only YOU can write. Yes, about elephants. We’re hosting a two-level contest with (a) modest $$ winnings and (b) possible inclusion in Elephanthology, a planned anthology of elephant lore—short stories of fiction or narrative nonfiction (imaginative writing, not articles per se), poetry, flash fiction . . . all published with author’s…

  Linda Ulleseit

  June 4, 2013

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