I volunteered for the first time at the San Francisco Writers’ Conference at the Mark Hopkins Hotel over Valentine’s weekend and had quite a positive professional experience there.

If you haven’t found this (The Mississippi Review), it’s about time you do. Loving the Flash Fiction issue, edited by Kim Chinquee, this issue features the Brothers Grandbois, Paul Lisicky,

Steve Almond is a genius when it comes to instructing writers about writing about sex (or not writing about sex). “Remember that the sexiest thing about sex is really desire, which is just a fancy word for not getting laid.”