Terry Farish's Blog, page 10
February 3, 2021
Four Children, a Ticking Clock, An Umbrella with White Butterflies: What if we are a web?
With these words maybe, just possibly, a sequence of events might be in play to bring a certain book from Iran to more readers of the world. A certain sequence of events – to a ticking clock – unfold just that way in the picture book, An Umbrella With White Butterflies, this certain book by...
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December 20, 2020
ONLINE Workshop: Writing a Picture Book
ONLINE Writing A Picture Book2 Week WorkshopThursdays January 14 & January 21, 6:30 – 8 PMRegister now! Here’s a workshop I’m doing for the Portsmouth Public Library. You can join us from everywhere. Picture books for children are poems with pictures. They can be hysterically funny. They can bring a family memory to life. Maria...
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Two Young Women from Nepal, a Pandemic, a Chance for a Senior Year
Here’s my story for InDepthNH about the impact on two international students of the pandemic. Two Young Women from Nepal, a Pandemic, a Chance for a Senior Year
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December 14, 2020
Virtual Events 2020
Sharing stories and ideas is happening in new ways. Here are some of my upcoming virtual events and visits. EVENTS Thompson Free Library Reading Group on zoom. Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Dec. 10. I joined the Thompson Library’s reading group who are reading The Good Braider. Lemon Punch Theater Lab, New Plays on Zoom, including my short play,...
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October 24, 2020
“I Felt I Was Walking With Them” – a story about creating refugee dolls
“Migration is an expression of the human aspiration of dignity, safety and a better future. It is a part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family.” Ban Ki-moon, Eighth Secretary General of the UN Children come to the U.S. from nearly all the countries of the world. UNHCR reports...
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October 15, 2020
Virtual Events 2020
“Fight Like a Girl” was one of my favorite past events that I was invited to be apart of. It was a panel discussion of YA writers put on by Boston Glow, a girl’s leadership organization. Our topic was: What it means to be a strong girl and how the characters in our novels portray...
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October 1, 2020
A School Visit
I enjoy talking with students about writing and about the content I present in my novels. These photos are from a visit I made in pre-virtual days to St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH. In discussions with students we explored issues around my writing of The Good Braider, our role as writers, and the idea...
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Rabbit in the Moon – my blog for readers and writers
My blog has chapters, what I call the categories. Choose the category you want in the index above or from the following list: World Stories and Stories of the Great U.S Mosaic of Us Here I bring together reviews, reading lists, and author interviews of books from around the world and about the home countries...
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Welcome, readers and writers
My blog has chapters, what I call the categories. Choose the category you want in the index above. World Stories and Stories of the Great U.S Mosaic of Us Here I bring together reviews, reading lists, and author interviews of books from around the world and about the home countries of new Americans. And the...
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September 30, 2020
The Way We Write
Pugs, Merengue, Dolce & Gabbana By Terry Farish In a first draft, the one that makes me cry over some truth I’ve finally seen, for a flashing moment, I am sun god. I am sloppy and haphazard in my journal keeping, but my journals are invaluable to me when I go...
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