July 1998

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Framing the structure of a novel
By Carol Shields
How to get a literary agent
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
A conversation with Joyce Christmas
By Claire E. White
The Poet's Choice: Lyric or Narrative
By Gregory Orr
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They say
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