Author: Cliff

>I’ve entered a fair number of literary contests in the last few months, as these contests seem to have arisen everywhere and present one…

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>Check out the audio of a Sheri Reynolds reading at Blackbird.

>Amy Bloom told her workshop on the first day that her Friday session would be cancelled because she had to leave early. Nothing was…

>On Thursday, the conference was winding down. At Dana Johnson’s first person class several people read what they had written in response to an…

>Dana Johnson’s First Person Class continued. Today we looked at some diverse examples of voice, including A.J. Verdelle, Chris Offutt, Gish Jen, Camus and…

>In this morning’s 1st Person class, Dana Johnson looked at some pretty diverse examples, from Harriet Beecher Stowe, to William Styron, to Roddy Doyle,…

>I’m participating in two classes in addition to the Amy Bloom Workshop. The first is about First Person Point of View, taught by a…

>I drove to Bloomington today from Richmond. I haven’t been back to Bloomington since, I think, 1982, when I came back with a law…

>On Thursday I drove from Virginia to Indiana, a trip that went by remarkably fast (it took 8 hours) because I was listening to…