September 1999

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Features
Writing about your own backyard
By Shelby Hearon
How to break into newspaper writing
By Lisa Coffey
An interview with Elinor Lipman
By Susan Kelly
Stranger than fiction
By Bobbie Ann Mason
Fact and fiction: the stuff that dreams are made of
By Rex Burns
Transforming sotry into plot
By David Copelin
A conversation with Ann Godoff
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
Departments
Roving editor
Off the cuff
How to develop your story
By Karen Ray
They say
Letters to the editor
From the editor
The rostrum
Add humor and stir
By Brother Craig
The writer's library
Market newsletter
Prize offers
Where to sell manuscripts
Drama; Fillers and Short Humor; Greeting Card Markets
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