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North of Hope: A Journey of Composition, a journey of faith

Search for Meaning Book Festival
Feb.14.2013

Shannon Huffman Polson presents as a featured author at the Seattle University's Search for Meaning Book Festival March 9, 2013. Join her hour long session in which she discusses the genre of memoir, the writing journey and how both shaped a faith journey as well.

Shannon's Latest Blogs

Mar.27.2013 - 11:31 am
North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey came to be published in an unexpected way, which I write about in a blog post at the Quivering Pen (see link). A phrase frequently...
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Mar.05.2013 - 10:27 pm
In the next week and a half we will go to as many as three funerals, one of which is for a person I have thought of as a friend and mentor and who succumbed quietly to cancer,...
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Dec.14.2012 - 10:36 pm
This Christmas there is at least one book I will read with my family, a tradition begun by my mom: Van Dyke's The Other Wise Man, a story beautifully capturing the...
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Aug.02.2012 - 9:59 pm
  At my final MFA residency at St. John’s College just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, we are discussing Cormac McCarthy, Richard Rodriguez, the art of rhetoric, describing...
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Published Reviews

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Feb.14.2013
Published by Publisher's Weekly
In her debut, Polson offers a memoir of her journey down a river of grief, set against the sparkling beauty of the wilderness of her native Alaska..Polson shares brutally honest...