Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. * * * Stories come to us all the time and much as we’d like to say yes, we love it and want to publish it, we cannot. This is not for a lack of effort by writers who have taken the great risk of putting their ideas into a story and sending it along in the hope that an editor will like it.
“ … It takes a fine and wise writer to turn a life event into a compelling story…. “