Showing posts with label creative nonfiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative nonfiction. Show all posts
Sunday, January 26, 2025

The ballad of Baba the Thin Man and the Good Ship Cameronia

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My sister sent me a packet of stuff she cleaned out of her attic. In it, I found a printout from The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundati...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Finn Murphy’s “Rocky Mountain High” may give you a “Hemp Space” buzz

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“Rocky Mountain High” reminds us of how we sat around a campfire everybody getting high on Colorado in the summer of ’72. John Denver’s melo...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Joan Didion and "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

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I was a bit shocked to find out that the Saturday Evening Post was still alive and celebrating its 200th anniversary. I know the Post from m...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

What does it cost to save a life?

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I am pleased that WyoFile published my review of Katherine Standefer's nonfiction book, "Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover ...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Help save the University of Wyoming Creative Writing M.F.A. Program

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This comes from a Nov. 17 Facebook post by writer and UW prof Nina Swamidoss McConigley of Laramie: Hey friends -- due to budget cuts, UW ha...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

Blood, Water, Wind, and Stone anthology reading tonight in Laramie

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Some fantastic writers will be reading tonight in Laramie. I won't be one of them, as I am here in Denver helping my daughter Annie....
Saturday, April 02, 2016

What I learned in graduate school, part one

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It seems as if I've read hundreds of critiques about M.F.A. writing programs over the years. They usually fall into two camps. No. 1: I...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

New Flash Fiction Review: "Welcome to Zan Xlemente, Zalifornia"

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New Flash Fiction Review published one of my pieces April 27 in its "New Work" section online. It's a fairly new online mag w...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

ISLE Journal issues a "call to writers" on behalf of climate change

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Saw this call for entries on the Facebook page of author and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams . Terry divides her time among U...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Workers urged to share their voices in a "community-building, creative investigation of what it means to labor in Wyoming"

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Today's news from Michigan shows that the Republican war on workers continues unabated. Southern Wyoming once had a strong union prese...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Essayist Poe Ballantine explores "the imperatives of virgins in volcanoes and the ghosts who watch over us"

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Laramie County Community College writing professor Leif Swanson invites us to a presentation by Nebraska writer Poe Ballantine on Monday, ...
Monday, April 02, 2012

Call for submissions: Veteran Voices, Open Window Review, Issue III

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Open Window Review invites you to submit your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and creative nonfiction for Issue III: "Veteran Voices....
Thursday, March 01, 2012

John D'Agata to read from his new book March 7 in Laramie

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On Wednesday, March 7 at 7 p.m., John D’Agata will give a reading from his new book,  The Lifespan of a Fact,  at Second Story Books, l...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

ADHD Parenting Book: Win a Copy of ''Easy to Love but Hard to Raise''

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Enter now to win a free copy of "Easy to Love but Hard to Raise: Real Parents, Challenging Kids, True Stories." This is an excelle...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Occupy Writers -- poetry and prose from the field

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Occupy Writers is a web site where writers and poets report on Occupy events. They’ve either attended the events in person or have been mov...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

So that's what gives the Vegas Strip its unusual glow...

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Just finished reading John D'Agata's book, "About a Mountain." It's a nonfiction account of the on-again, off-again st...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Can a blog post be literary in a "narrative, narrative, narrative" sort of way?

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This comes from Poets & Writers : Inspired by a rumination on the New York Times Paper Cuts blog that asked whether a blog could ever ri...