May 2000

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Features
Mining family gold for fiction
By Eileen Goudge
Writing the modern western
By Peter Brandvold
Time travel and fantasy
By Christina Hamlett
A conversation with Melinda Haynes
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
A conversation with Ethan Canin
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
Finding the right conference
By Dorothy Winslow Wright
Writers Conferences 2000
Departments
Letters to the editor
They say
Roving editor
From the editor
Off the cuff
Advice from Stuart Little
By Patricia Wiles
The writer's library
Prize offers
The rostrum
Why write nonfiction?
By Bill Vossler
Where to sell manuscripts
Magazines Markets: Detective, Mystery, True Crime; SF and Fantasy; Confessions and Romance; Military; Travel; Inflight
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