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Jun.20.2012
As I mentioned in my piece “The Accidental Publisher,” I’ve started slowly publishing other people’s books at White Whisker Books. For now, I’ve started with colleagues who have been published and are finding the playing field of publishing has changed for them. Either their agents have left the...
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Apr.19.2012
Thanks to all of you who entered the blog contest and congratulations to the winners who will be joining us tomorrow in Los Angeles. For those of you who will not be there, we will be following the event live on twitter @EileenKohan
This weekend is my favorite time on campus. Throughout the week...
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Mar.28.2012
Join us for a full day of conversations and workshops beginning with a keynote address by Ivory Madison, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of redroom.com. To register go to http://www.usc.edu/esvp and enter code: uscwc . There are a limited number of USC student scholarships available. Please contact...
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Jun.01.2011
Janet Fitch, the author of the blockbuster White Oleander and a teacher at USC and The Squaw Valley Community of Writers, approved the publication of this list -- intended for fiction writers but good for many of us -- in its entirety in the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/...
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May.26.2010
I loved meeting Khrys Vaughan of Launch Notes Radio this morning! What a lovely lady, and what a wonderful thing she is doing by encouraging women starting new businesses.
Have you heard about Craig Pollard? He has been in the news because he began an organization called Cancer for College. He...
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May.25.2010
Time Wise's post prompted me to post this essay, which appeared in the 2008 Spring Issue of Black Arts Quarterly.
The night I arrived in Singapore to start my Fulbright fellowship was the day my mother and stepfather returned to New Orleans to see what broken levees had left for them. I...
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Apr.15.2010
Just over two years ago when I was teaching creative writing at USC in the Master of Professional Writing Program, I'd volunteered to head up a search for fellow faculty to write proposals for the next AWP Conference.
We were between program directors then, and the associate dean who was...
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Jan.15.2010
It happens every semester in my Introduction to Literature class at Santa Monica College. The students' faces look like they just witnessed Icarus plop at their feet, bones cracking, his wing's hot wax spewing across their arms. I'd just announced we'll now spend five weeks in poetry.
For their...
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Sep.28.2009
We have some of the best kindergartens in the world here in San Francisco. Or they should be, given what kids and parents have to go through to get into these elite institutions. The screening begins at age three and a majority of applicants are turned down for their first choice of kindergarten....
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