May 1997

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Features
Partners in crime
By Marcia Muller
Finding the alien voice
By Dean Whitlock
A conversation with A.S. Byatt
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
Writing human interest articles
By Janet Fabyankovic, Catherine Pigora
All lines lead to rhyme
By Addie Adam
Writers Conferences 1997
Departments
Roving editor
Letters to the editor
From the editor
They say
Off the cuff
What Emily Dickinson knew
By Helen Marie Casey
The rostrum
Writing residences in our national parks
By Doris Lynch
The writer's library
Market newsletter
Prize offers
Where to sell manuscripts
Markets: detective, mystery, true crime, sf and fantasy
Confession and romance
Travel, inflight
Military
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