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Nick Belardes

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NICK BELARDES is illustrator of NYT Best-Selling Novel by Jonathan Evison West of Here (2011), author of Random Obsessions (2009), Lords (2005), and the first literary Twitter novel: Small Places (2010). An author, poet, artist, and even a screenwriter/actor, Belardes turned TV/online journalist overnight after blogging his way to success. His articles and essays have appeared on the homepage of CNN.com and other news sites across America including AOL’s Popeater and The Nervous Breakdown -- L.A.’s leading literary and nonfiction collective.

Nick has taught art, novel writing, poetry, history and photography at Bakersfield College, CSUB OLLI Program and the Art Institute of Las Vegas. He launched the Random Writers Workshop in 2009, a low-c...more


Random Writers Workshop in Bakersfield, Ca., is looking for funding to help in its latest marketing and scholarships for attendees, as well as to continue to bring guest writers into the southern San Joaquin Valley. You can donate to help an area with one of the lowest literacy rates in the U.S. We are trying to raise between $2,500-$5,000.

DONATION PAGE: Please come donate a buck or two!

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Published on April 20, 2012 10:53 • 74 views • Tags: college, creative-writing, fiction, fundraiser, literacy, nonfiction, poetry, university, writing-workshop
Average rating: 3.43 · 23 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works
Random Obsessions: Trivia Y...
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Lords, Part 1
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005
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Random Obsessions: Trivia You Can't Live Without (Reference)
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Description: This is the intro to chapter one of Random Obsessions. I introduce a section on bizarre history. You'll want to read more...!
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On the Road
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It's a bizarre sci-fi commentary so far. Reminds me of what the WALL-E world might have been like just prior to the ships taking off from Earth. Not far into it yet though...
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The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac by Kris D'Agostino
" Like many modern twentysomethings, Calvin is a slacker still struggling to enter the "real world" a few years after college, saddled with debt and living with his parents, realizing that his education hasn't prepared him for a job. The urge to reg... "
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Selena Blake Hi Nick,

Thank you for the friendship!

Happy Reading,

Selena


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Beth Hi Nick,
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