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May 18, 2022
Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.18.22 from Margaret Atwood
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May 17, 2022
Thoughts on writing and life for May 2022
The surprises and joys that come from sowing seeds in a literary garden.Just a few thoughts on the surprises and joys that come from sowing seeds in a literary garden.
This is an excerpt from my newsletter, The Writing Life for May 2022.
You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast.
This month marks the beginning of the third year for my Living the Writing Life podcast, and my third year as a podcast host. When I think about how the podcast came to be, I realize that in man...
May 11, 2022
Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.11.22 from George V. Higgins
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May 10, 2022
A Play on Words: Humorist’s Essays Performed on Stage—Guest Post by Dorothy Rosby
All writers dream of the day when our words will be enjoyed by readers. But award-winning humorist Dorothy Rosby has not only had her writing enjoyed by those who read her columns and books, she has also had the exciting opportunity to see her work performed onstage.
In this guest post, she shares her experience of watching her essays being shared aloud with an appreciative audience.
For more about Dorothy and her books, visit her website and follow her on Twitter (@dorothyrosby) or Facebook. Yo...
May 4, 2022
Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.4.22 from Esther Freud
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April 27, 2022
Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 4.27.22 from Elizabeth Berg
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April 26, 2022
My Thoughts On… Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz
I chose Kathryn Schulz’s memoir, Lost & Found, the way I choose so many of the books I read: because the subject matter resonated with me.
One point of connection was that she too had lost her father, and even after almost seven years, the loss of my own father at times can be a fresh and deep pain. A second was that she had unexpectedly found love and happiness—something I too have most gratefully experienced.
Kathryn Schulz’s memoir is not an emotional, agonizing depiction of the pain of watch...
April 20, 2022
Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 4.20.22 from Richard Bausch
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Thoughts on writing and life for April 2022
Just a few thoughts about the importance of staying focused on your goals, even if you think it’s too late for you to achieve them, because, after all, you never know.
This is an excerpt from my The Writing Life newsletter for April 2022.
You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast.
Every now and then I’ll come across book reviews where the reviewers said what they read changed their life. Altered their thinking about their rel...
April 15, 2022
Living the Writing Life podcast with memoirist, poet, and playwright Deborah Tobola
On my Living the Writing Life podcast, my guest Deborah Tobola and I discuss the role the arts can play in the lives of those who are incarcerated, what led her to become involved with prisoners, and her goal in writing her memoir.Listen to the episode here.
Deborah's work has earned four Pushcart Prize nominations, three Academy of American Poets awards and a Children’s Choice Book Award.
Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, A Memoir won a Next Generation Indie Book Award in Social Justice, a Nautilus Silver Book Award in Heroic Journeys, a Readers’ Favorite bronze medal in Non-Fiction – Social Issues, and first place in Chanticleer International’s HEARTEN Awards. It was also a finalist in the Willa Literary Awards’ Women Writing the West in Creative Nonfiction.
Deborah has worked as a journalist, legislative aide and adjunct English faculty member in Alaska and California. She began teaching creative writing in California prisons in 1992, taking the job of Institution Artist Facilitator at the California Men’s Colony in 2000, before retiring at the end of 2008.
In 2014, Deborah returned to prison as a contract artist, where she currently teaches creative writing and theatre at the California Men’s Colony.
In 2009, she founded the Poetic Justice Project, a program of the William James Association, the country’s first theatre company created for formerly incarcerated actors, where she serves as artistic director.
Poetic Justice Project’s pandemic miracle, the play Terms of Confinement is now on YouTube, written by her, is based on writings from her students who had been incarcerated.
