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- Scratchboard artist gives new meaning to detail - Porterville Recorder
Scratchboard artist gives new meaning to detailPorterville Recorder, CA - 8 hours agoChalk surface board is first spray painted with India ink, and then the artist scratches off the black to create the picture that comes to life in the white ...
- Getting Published: The E-Book Option - Mediabistro.com
For new writers, an online approach to publishing is a smart way to start out. Aspiring authors are always looking for new ways to get their work into print. The rise of e-publishing and print-on-demand (POD) publishing has made it easier for many ...
- Writing contest encourages storytelling - Williams Lake Tribune
Williams Lake TribuneWriting contest encourages storytellingWilliams Lake Tribune, Canada - 5 hours agoOne of his stories was recently selected for publication in the Poetry Institute of Canada’s latest book for young writers called Clouds. ...
- Norman Community Events (The Oklahoman)
TODAY Norman Farm Market , 8 a.m. to noon, 360-4721, Cleveland County Fairgrounds, 615 E Robinson St., 360-4721. United Ministry Center free lunch , noon, United Ministry Center, 1017 Elm Ave., 321-8682. 2008 Conference on Global and Educational Robotics , 1:30 p.m., Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave., 579-4609. Science Fiction Club meeting , 7:30 p.m., New York Pizza and Pasta, 217 W ...
- Teens get positive messages flowing (The News Journal)
WILMINGTON -- On the second floor of the Jackson Street Boys & Girls Clubs, 12-year-old Aliyah Tyler spoke before three judges as part of the fourth annual Delaware Teen Idol competition.
- Enjoy cowboy poetry, songs at Crawford State Park - Delta County Independent
Enjoy cowboy poetry, songs at Crawford State ParkDelta County Independent, CO - 3 hours agoBring the family to Crawford State Park for an evening of cowboy poetry, songs and campfire fun on Saturday, July 19. The event begins at 6 pm on the ...
- Religion calendar (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
Poetry and Music Workshop: The Episcopal Church of Reconciliation will host a workshop about the healing power of poetry and music from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at 8900 Starcrest.
- Book Review: Literary memoir is believable (The Oklahoman)
"My Sister, My Love†by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95). Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss†Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is ...
- NEA awards 'Big Read' grants (Contra Costa Times)
LOS ANGELES — The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host The Big Read, an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture.
- Annual poetry festival to be bigger than ever - This is Worcester
POETRY lovers will visit the historic town of Ledbury to meet two of Britain's most popular, highly-regarded wordsmiths. Popular contemporary poet Carol Ann Duffy will officially open the town's annual poetry festival, which runs from Friday, July 4 ...
- Adam Thorpe's top 10 satires - guardian.co.uk
Adam Thorpe's top 10 satiresguardian.co.uk, UK - 8 hours agoBetween Each Breath, his latest novel, is published along with his latest poetry collection, Birds With a Broken Wing, by Jonathan Cape this week. ...
- The death of poetry? - Daily News and Analysis
Poet and writer Javed Akhtar talks about why Urdu is slowly making way for Hinglish lyrics in Bollywood flicks Award-winning veteran writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar, who has written lyrics for films like Om Shanti Om, Swades, Kal Ho Na Ho, Dil ...
- Desperadoes Steelpan Great Frank "Crawl" Findley Passes - PanOnTheNet.com
PanOnTheNet.comDesperadoes Steelpan Great Frank "Crawl" Findley PassesPanOnTheNet.com, NY - 6 hours agoTrinidad - Frank "Crawl" Findley was pure poetry in motion. His effortless movements hid even the most difficult passages from the uninitiated eyes. ...
- How alliteration enhances poetry, prose and memory - HULIQ.com
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful ...
- Searching for a quiet, enlightening getaway? - MSNBC
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
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