by Matthew Bennett | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog
The capstone to the residency I just completed with Seattle7Writers was a night of public reading. The charismatic and wonderful Jennie Shortridge hosted the event at Elliott Bay Books. There I joined past residents Janet Buttenwieser and Sierra Nelson to read...
by Matthew Bennett | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog
This brief post is to announce that I’ve taken on the volunteer position of Vice President of Member Services with the Northwest Editors Guild. The Northwest Editors Guild promotes the craft of editing and helps organize and educate member editors through...
by Matthew Bennett | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
Thomas McCormack’s The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist (Paul Dry, 1988) is a standard guide for editors of novels. Similar (and better) works now offer a more schematic approach. I’ll review the related Self-Editing for the Fiction Writer (William...
by Matthew Bennett | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Happy news for the writer in me: on Monday I began a writing residency with Seattle7Writers! This means that I have my own office in Ballard for the next four months. I will use the space to focus on a short story I’ve been developing. This story is set in...
by Matthew Bennett | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Transformations are difficult. Especially difficult when your formation as an academic prepares you in oblique ways for what you desire to become: a writer. William Germano’s From Dissertation to Book (U Chicago, 2005) is nearly a classic in the books-on-writing...
by Matthew Bennett | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
Let’s begin with a book that serves as an inspiring and comprehensive introduction to the art of developmental editing, my own preferred corner of the craft. If you’re curious to know the different levels of editorial intervention (copyediting, line editing, and...
