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Jan.24.2013
Photo: Brown University's University Building, built in 1770. From Brown University's Wikipedia page.
A few quick things:
--It's my birthday, and I need some lovins. Cuz I'm old.
--Having a writers group meeting at my house tomorrow between 5pm and whenever....
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Oct.01.2012
The Facebook page “Sentence Me” recently shared the following quote from the 2001 article “Sentenced to Death” by Salon book critic Laura Miller:
“Just as nuclear physicists strive to impress other nuclear physicists and dog breeders value the admiration of fellow dog breeders over that of the...
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Sep.07.2012
Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2012 Issue
This isn’t a writer’s magazine, but then it is. First and foremost it’s a doorway to publication for writers in the genre of personalized, real-life subjects. Creative Nonfiction publishes experienced writers, writers with the...
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Aug.31.2012
Poets & Writers, Sep/Oct 2012 Issue
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I’ve subscribed to this ambitious writer’s mag magazine for a lot of years now, and my relationship to it has changed over those years. I used to plumb the interviewed writers’ minds for writing tips, always unsure of my...
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May.04.2012
Arts and Letters – Issue 26, Spring 2012
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I’ve become somewhat jaded about literary magazines, particularly those sponsored and published by the various colleges and universities, but not this time. This publication by Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA, contains...
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Mar.01.2012
Creativity is a hot topic these days, and there have been quite a few articles lately, especially in the business press, about how American corporations need to become more innovative. The underlying notion in these articles is that as a nation, we’ve lost our creative mojo, and we’d better get it...
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Dec.16.2011
Getting my MFA in creative was one of the highlights of my writing life -- and the beginning of a very rewarding teaching life. I'd love to tell you why, and so...
On Sunday, January 8, from 4 to 6pm at The Writers Junction in Santa Monica, CA, I'll be hosting a free information session about...
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Nov.27.2011
Attention writers! This is a heads up that you have just a few more weeks to get your application in for Goddard's MFA program in creative Writing. Deadline is Dec. 6 for the program in VT and January 13 for my own beloved program in gorgeous Port Townsend, WA -- where I teach. More on the...
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Nov.03.2011
Some time back I received a copy of New South - Georgia State University's Journal of Art and Literature (Vol 4, No. 2). I'm not sure how I got this - maybe I entered a contest. Or maybe in some serendipitous course of events the missus' alma mater connected the dots between my writing...
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Oct.31.2011
I really think that writing, especially creative writing, even if it is nonfiction, is ultimately an autodidactic pursuit. I don't think I have read an interview of any writer, successful or not, who while crediting parents or friends or an MFA program or some other motivator has not in some way...
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