“Wines from Portugal’s Douro Valley claimed three of the top four places in Wine Spectator’s 2014 top 100 ranking — including the No. 1 spot awarded to Dow’s 2011 Vintage Port.” Read more in USA Today here!

Noy Holland on her mentor Gordon Lish in an excerpt from A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, edited by Jeff Parker and Annie Liontas. Read it on Lit Hub here!

After reading more than 1,000 entries, DISQUIET & Summer Literary Seminars are proud to announce this year’s winners of our joint contest in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. See the results here!

Great news: we’re pushing our deadline for the Short Play Contest back by one week!

So get up from your keyboard and stretch a little. Go outside. Get a coffee. Call your mother. AND THEN GET BACK TO WORK. We’re loving what you’re sending us, so keep it up!

Contest now closes: March 7, 2015.