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- Conference to focus on ‘Writing in Place' (The Greenville News)
Sometimes the only thing separating a rough draft from a masterpiece is a sense of place. That's why the Hub City Writers Project, the 13-year-old Spartanburg publishing house, started the annual "Writing in Place" conference eight years ago. August's conference at Wofford College will be the ninth for the group, and there are still a few spots open for aspiring writers, says Hub City executive ...
- The telltale heart - Business World
John Torres’ Taon noong ako’y anak sa labas will screen at the Mogwai art cinema at Cubao X, Araneta Center, Cubao, QC, tonight at 8 pm. John Torres’ Taon noong ako’y anak sa labas (Years When I Was a Child Outside , 2008) starts out with the ...
- Reaching out to young readers - Sentinel & Enterprise
LEOMINSTER --Some teen girls like books better than boys and like art better than shopping at the mall, according to 14-year-old Catherine Brow. "We're not the typical boy-crazy girls who are at the mall 24/7," Brow said. Brow is one of five young ...
- Minor bun engine fun - Mid-Day Mumbai
Minor bun engine funMid-Day Mumbai, India - 1 hour agoNonsense verse is described as poetry written for humorous effect, “intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or otherwise strange. ...
- For Maxine Kumin, 'Writing is my salvation' (Prairie Public Broadcasting)
Bouncing back after an accident, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet has renewed passion for 'poems that matter.'
- Poet’s first collection a remarkable beginning - The Chronicle Herald
I MUST BEGIN my review of Johanna Skibsrud’s Late Nights with wild Cowboys (Gaspereau Press, $18.95), her debut poetry collection, with two disclosures: 1) she was once my student in a class at the University of Toronto; 2) her publisher is also my ...
- Hillsborough athlete's death devastates peers - Asbury Park Press
HILLSBOROUGH — Friends, co-workers, fellow athletes and students devastated by the loss of their champion track runner are working to make sure Jason Walton's memory lives on. In the quiet moments following the lunch rush at Nelson's Pizza on Route ...
- 'Voice of my ancestors' guided N. Scott Momaday, keynote speaker at ... - WFAA
books@dallasnews.com Karen Thomas is a freelance writer in Arlington. N. Scott Momaday, considered the dean of American Indian writers, grew up steeped in language. As a young Kiowa boy, the stories of his family and tribe flowed richly from ...
- Newtown celebrates women in arts - Joburg
Newtown celebrates women in artsJoburg, South Africa - 43 minutes agoSisters are saying it loud and proud through art, dance, music, poetry and film; their stamp is everywhere, even in science, in Newtown over the Women's Day ...
- Waiter is longlisted for £60,000 book prize (The Herald)
A 27-year-old waiter has been longlisted for a £60,000 book prize for his first novel. Yorkshire-born Ross Raisin, who lives in London, is up for the Dylan Thomas Prize for God's Own Country, which he wrote while working as a waiter.
- Summer 2008 Family Fare (MetroActive)
You know, for the kids ... San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd, San Jose. 1.888.455.SHOW.
- 'Still Alive! A Temporary Condition' by Herbert Gold - Los Angeles Times
'Still Alive! A Temporary Condition' by Herbert GoldLos Angeles Times, CA - 34 minutes agoAs undergraduates, Ginsberg and Gold shared a school prize for poetry. A Fulbright Exchange Scholarship and the GI Bill sent Gold to Paris, where he wrote ...
- Skip to the heart beat and it's all the more rosy - Brisbane Times
Circumcise your heart? It sounds, when you're done wincing, like some snippet of Eastern mysticism, some off-cut - if you'll pardon the pun - of the mantras, kabbalas or kama sutras we presume to be more poetic than what-I-suppose-we-might-still-call ...
- Movie News Tuesday: 24 June 2008 - PopMatters
PopMattersMovie News Tuesday: 24 June 2008PopMatters, IL - 11 minutes agoAccording to Variety, the African American auteur, having just wrapped up his take on the legendary Buffalo Soldiers of World War II (Miracle at St. Anna, ...
- A very deep well of magical escapes - Toronto Star
A very deep well of magical escapesToronto Star, Canada - 21 minutes agoEva Ibbotson also writes with an underlying intelligence and poetry that make her novels especially satisfying. The Dragonfly Pool (Macmillan, 398 pages, ...
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