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memoirreviews: May 2010

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Memoirreviews features reviews of memoirs. This blog is partnered with http:/ www.memoirreviews.com , a website which also features memoir reviews as well as more than 1000 titles of memoirs on numerous topics. Thursday, May 20, 2010. Memoir Festival July 16-18, 2010 - Rhinebeck, New York. Omega is sponsoring what promises to be a terrific memoir festival. I'm going. Meet me there! Below is the URL:. Is the author of a new book, The Ticking is the Bomb,. Author of Her Last Death,. Is codirector of Authen...

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Writers' Forum: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

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Pratt Institute's bi-weekly reading series and discussion seminar for the Writing Program. Saturday, January 1, 2011. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the recipient of a 2010 Whiting Award, and the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, selected as one of the ten best books of 2009 by Dwight Garner of The New York Times. His short stories and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Jenny Stohlm...

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The Sirenland Fellowship | Sirenland Writers Conference

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April 2 – April 8, 2017. The Sirenland Fellowship provides travel, room and board and fees for attending The Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano , Italy. It is given to a writer who is in the process of completing a project, but has not published a book before March, 2016. The fellowship cannot be applied for. Candidates are nominated by a panel of publishing professionals. All entries are read blind and the winner chosen by Dani Shapiro. Sirenland would like to thank the following nominators:.

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Letter from —… | Little Seal

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Cheese and Cherries: O’Hare Revisited. Letter from —…. Letter from —. Autumn mourns the leaves shaking from green to yellow. They eat special cut lamb shanks and drink fizzy red martinis in the bathtub. The commentator’s mouth dips to the right no matter which political candidate she is discussing. We laugh because we want to cry. It is understood that love is fragile. October in England is sun and rain and hamsters running in cages all through the night like the song.Our table at the Indian restaura...

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Sunday Rumpus Essay | Little Seal

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New article on Salon.com. National Day of Hope for National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Alliance in Honor of Ronan Louis →. August 10, 2012. 8220;Grief like social class, its sociological equivalent is the greatest divider, but it is also a leveler. Not everyone is going to raise their rank or be born with one, but everyone will experience grief.”. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. New article on Salon.com. One response to “ Sunday Rumpus Essay. August 13, 2012 at 11:17 am. Enter your comment here.

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February | 2013 | Little Seal

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Monthly Archives: February 2013. Ronan – posted by Weber. February 15, 2013. Ronan passed away peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 15th at about 3:30 am in Santa Fe. He was surrounded by friends and family. If you would like to make a donation in Ronan’s memory, please do so at the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association, who have been a huge support to Emily and her family – http:/ www.ntsad.org/. A recent pic of Ronan –. Join 1,464 other followers. Little Seal on Salon. I WILL NEVER GET OVER IT!

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On the Path of Possibility | Dani Shapiro

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Black & White. Family History: A Novel. Stories & Essays. Contact & Bio. Workshops & Teaching. Find Dani on Facebook. Follow Dani on Twitter. Poor Man's Feast. December 12, 2014. On the Path of Possibility. Tells me the Buddhists call this. The effortless effort is unmistakable. Those of us who are writers feel it when we’re deep in the work and the world falls away. It’s a hard, hard place to get to, and once we’re there, we want to find a way to stay there forever. And we made the decision years ago to.

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Blog | Sirenland Writers Conference

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April 2 – April 8, 2017. Jim Shepard: The Importance of Being a Teacher. May 25th, 2016. On May 6, One Story. At its annual Debutante Ball. With its mentor of the year. Award Accepting the award, Jim gave an inspiring speech about what teaching means to him, and why he puts so much of his time and energy into mentoring and help others to become better writers. The text of that speech is below. Thank you Josh, and thank you Hannah. I want to thank each and every one of you who has worked with me for your ...