May 1999

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Features
Rooting for your characters
By Barnaby Conrad
Secrets of romantic conflict
By Vanessa Grant
Writing and selling your travel articles
By Janet Steinberg
What is a poem?
By Diana Der-Hovanessian
A conversation with Jane Smiley
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
Writers Conferences 1999
Departments
They say
Roving editor
Off the cuff
The lone ranger syndrome
By Bill Davis
Letters to the editor
From the editor
The rostrum
Getting over the post-workshop blues
By Roseanne Montillo
Where to sell manuscripts
Magazine Markets: Detective, Mystery, True Crime; SF and Fantasy;
Confessions and Romance; Military; Travel, Inflight
The writer's library
Prize offers
Market newsletter
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