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Jun.05.2010 The Value of a Residency Last night five writers, South African, Egyptian, 2 Americans and myself, Jamaican/Caribbean, sat around the table, stuffed, listening to music of the 60's sung by an Argentinean (he has lived in Egypt for 15 years), entertaining mostly German tourist at El Gouna, Egypt, where we are fortunate to...	Jun.05.2010 The Value of a Residency Last night five writers, South African, Egyptian, 2 Americans and myself, Jamaican/Caribbean, sat around the table, stuffed, listening to music of the 60's sung by an Argentinean (he has lived in Egypt for 15 years), entertaining mostly German tourist at El Gouna, Egypt, where we are fortunate to...
May.07.2010 Compelling Life of Writers in Process--Day 2 El Gouna You share a space, you become mates for basic things: food, drink, dance, exercise, shopping, conversation. You know each other quickly, tell tales the first day it takes even your closest friends years to learn.It is a sanctuary, it is a fallout shelter, it is a tribal council. Within six hours of...	Mar.22.2010 The Spring Equinox: A Time of Earthly Balance, and Yes, Time to Think about a Writer's Retreat! The Spring Equinox is a time of earthly balance, when day and night are everywhere the same—a good time to envision the rest of the year with clarity and focus. My creative life is out of balance right now—I know this. Whenever I’m not spending enough time engaged in the creative process of writing...
Dec.16.2009 Oregon Arts Commission grant The Oregon Arts Commission has awarded me a Career Opportunity grant for my artist residency in Hawaii this coming spring 2010. I'm honored to have received this award and very much looking forward to my residency! It's been a long 'winter' in Portland and the solstice isn't here yet. I...	Mar.18.2009 Yaddo or Bust I have been offered a one month residency at Yaddo, the artist community in Saratoga Springs, New York. I will be in residence from mid-June to mid-July, and will be working on my second book, Works Cited: Falling Up & Down in a Bookless World. I am by turns thrilled and freaked out. Thrilled...
Jul.16.2008 Announcing Oneself as a Writer Breakfast with writers I don't yet know always scares me a little at first. But the group was fairly congenial. A painter, Cynthia, who is working on "skin" (she's painting pores and wrinkles, sounds like); another painter my age I look forward to getting to know (though she expressed...	Mar.31.2008 Writers Residency: VSC or VCCA? As a writer, at some point of your writing career, you may find yourself tired of workshops and, instead, looking for a residency where you can write without distraction. I am at Vermont Studio Center (VSC) right now. And I was at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) last summer....