Lots of Good Things
Lovely, patient readers:
NonfictioNow was great! Highlights for me were a great process talk by Alison Bechdel, an exploration and enactment of collage by John Edgar Wideman, and a fantastic panel on women's travel writing organized by Stephanie Elizondo Griest and featuring Mary Morris, Michele Morano, and Faith Adiele, which was extremely well organized, thoughtfully prepared, thought-provoking, and practically helpful--not what every panel achieves! EJ Levy was great on Hazlitt on the pleasures of hating. And, of course, I got to hang out with the huge-hearted, super-smart, wicked-tongued Ralph Savarese, who makes me laugh so hard I cry.
But did I hit the ground running when I got back? Did I have meetings out the wazoo, a reading to attend, a paper to deliver? Am I failing to form coherent thoughts?
Yes, yes, and yes, but luckily, I've been collecting these interesting tidbits for you. So--until I get a full night's sleep--here you are:
Laugh out loud at this Dinty Moore animated original, What Is Creative About Creative Nonfiction?
In the same vein: Why Teachers Drink. (Thanks, Kwakiutl!)
More seriously, Water~Stone Review has inaugurated the Judith Kitchen Prize in Creative Nonfiction for a single piece of creative nonfiction (maximum word count 8,000 words). It costs 15 bucks to enter, and the deadline is December 1st. Go here for details.
Academe, the journal of the AAUP, is seeking an editor for its book review section, which runs four times a year, and here's the lowdown:
That's it for now. More soon.
NonfictioNow was great! Highlights for me were a great process talk by Alison Bechdel, an exploration and enactment of collage by John Edgar Wideman, and a fantastic panel on women's travel writing organized by Stephanie Elizondo Griest and featuring Mary Morris, Michele Morano, and Faith Adiele, which was extremely well organized, thoughtfully prepared, thought-provoking, and practically helpful--not what every panel achieves! EJ Levy was great on Hazlitt on the pleasures of hating. And, of course, I got to hang out with the huge-hearted, super-smart, wicked-tongued Ralph Savarese, who makes me laugh so hard I cry.
But did I hit the ground running when I got back? Did I have meetings out the wazoo, a reading to attend, a paper to deliver? Am I failing to form coherent thoughts?
Yes, yes, and yes, but luckily, I've been collecting these interesting tidbits for you. So--until I get a full night's sleep--here you are:
Laugh out loud at this Dinty Moore animated original, What Is Creative About Creative Nonfiction?
In the same vein: Why Teachers Drink. (Thanks, Kwakiutl!)
More seriously, Water~Stone Review has inaugurated the Judith Kitchen Prize in Creative Nonfiction for a single piece of creative nonfiction (maximum word count 8,000 words). It costs 15 bucks to enter, and the deadline is December 1st. Go here for details.
Academe, the journal of the AAUP, is seeking an editor for its book review section, which runs four times a year, and here's the lowdown:
Got views about higher ed? Throw your hat in the ring! Shape the conversation. Why not?It is an unpaid position with minor expenses covered--and a great opportunity to affect the conversation about critical issues facing higher education. You need not be a tenure-track or tenured faculty member to be considered. Send a paragraph or two about your interest and qualifications to Michael Ferguson, managing editor of Academe, at mferguson@aaup.org
That's it for now. More soon.
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