Bio Note
Michael Steinberg is the founding editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.
Steinberg has written, co-written and edited five books and a stage play. In addition, his essays and memoirs have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies.
In 2004, Foreword Magazine chose Still Pitching as the Independent Press Memoir of the Year. And, the Association of American University Presses listed it in “Books Selected for School Libraries.”
Other titles include, Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs From Michigan—a finalist for the 2000 Forward Magazine Independent Press Anthology of the Year and the 2000 Great Lakes Book Sellers Award; and an anthology, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, co-edited with Robert Root, now in its sixth edition.
He has also been a guest writer and teacher at many colleges and universities, as well as at several national and international writers’ conferences, including the Prague Summer Writing Program, the Paris Writers’ Conference, The Kachemak Bay/Alaska Writers’ Conference, the Geneva Writers’ Conference, and the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, among several others.
Currently, he's writer-in-residence at the Solstice/Pine Manor low-residency MFA program.
RECOMMENDED CONTESTS: LITERARY JOURNALS AND BOOK PRIZES
Literary Journals
Solstice Creative Nonfiction Prize Solstice.
Fourth Genre Michael Steinberg Essay Prize Fourth Genre.
Missouri Review Editor's Prize Missouri Review.
New Letters, Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize New Letters.
Crab Orchard Review John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize Crab Orchard.
"Talking Writing", a fine online journal for writers is running a contest prize for fiction and nonfiction. For more information, go to Talking Writing.
BOOKS
River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize River Teeth.
Breadloaf/Bakeless Contest Breadloaf.
AWP Award Series AWP.
MIKE'S SELECTED CRAFT ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS
CRAFT ESSAYS
"The Person to Whom Things Happened. Finding the Inner Story in Personal Narratives". Prime Number Journal . Prime Number.
"Memory, Fact, Imagination, Research: Memoir's Hybrid Personality". Solstice Lit Mag. Solstice.
"Finding the Inner Story in Memoirs and Personal Essays". From: Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, 5:1, Spring, 2001. Fourth Genre.
"The Multiple Selves Within: Crafting Narrative Personae in Literary Memoir". TriQuarterly.
INTERVIEWS:
Association of Writers and Writing Programs AWP.
Fourth Genre Journal Vol. 12, No. 2/Fall 2010. Scroll down to the end of AWP Interview. Fourth Genre.