Joyce Carol Oates at Occupy Wall Street Day
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Come to my Free 6-week Writing Workshop Using the Archetypes
Reblogged from Therapy with Kiersten Marek, LICSW: UPDATE: This workshop starts tonight! Looking forward to it! Innocent ❂ Wounded Child Warrior ❂ Caregiver Explorer ❂ Soul Mate ❂ Destroyer ❂ Artist Leader ❂ Guru ❂ Healer ❂ Fool “Creative Writing Through the Archetypes” a 6-Week Writing Workshop When: starting Thursday, April 5th, 2012, from 6:00 [...]
Joanna Russ
What a week! First Pheobe Snow, and now science fiction goddess Joanna Russ has died. She was one of the best and most original writers of the 70′s, and will be missed. I found one of my favorites of her short stories on Google Books. When I first read it I didn’t catch her Lovecraft [...]
Bake, Baby, Bake!
From Cranston Councilman-Elect Steve Stycos (Congratulations, Steve! I am proud to have worked for your campaign!), some advice for the season and news of upcoming events: BAKE, BABY, BAKE The Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market will have plenty of good food left this Saturday, Saturday November 13 and at our big final Thanksgiving market Saturday November [...]
New Poet Laureate Named
I appreciate the beauty of language, the taste and feel of it in my mouth, the casual way it lies upon the printed page and reflects light and truth. Because I love language, I love poetry and so pay attention to events such as the naming of a new U.S. Poet Laureate. Yesterday, the New [...]
Bananagrams Writing Contest Sponsored by The Newport Review!
The great trifecta reward for talented writing was once considered to be fame, fortune and sex, but we have an even better incentive to write great prose and poetry: The Newport Review Writing Contest! Win $200 (a total of $500 in cash prizes will be awarded) for writing a clever, insightful or otherwise kick-ass story [...]
Oh the Wonders of Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has finally written a memoir — based on the experiences surrounding her husband Raymond Smith’s death in 2008. From The Wall Street Journal: Joyce Carol Oates has published more than 50 novels, more than 30 short-story collections and an endless stream of essays and reviews—and that’s not counting her novellas, plays and [...]
Autumn Reading for The Newport Review at Barrington Library
As a Board Member for The Newport Review, I will be attending a reading we are holding at the Barrington Library tomorrow evening. Here are the details: Autumn Evening Reading Please join authors and editors from Newport Review for an Autumn Evening Reading on Tuesday, September 29 at 7 PM at Barrington Public Library. Poets [...]
Newport Review Summer 2008 Issue Now Online
The Newport Review (of which I am a board member and editor) now has its new issue online and it’s a sight to see. The photography alone is worth the trip. We also have some great flash fiction from Bob Thurber, our 2008 Flash Fiction First Prize winner, and a stunning new piece of memoir [...]
Writing Retreat Weekend in August
For the writers among us looking for opportunities to focus and get quality feedback, here is a writing retreat weekend being facilitated by Kathryn Kulpa, one of the original writers for Kmareka back when we were a quarterly, and a teacher and editor of superior talent: Writing Retreat Weekend Are you looking for a great [...]
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