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August 3, 2013

Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2013–the end is near

On Wednesday morning we began with another staff reading. We heard from Nick McRae, Emilia Phillips, and Chris Poole. After that, three fellows read:…
August 1, 2013

Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2013–beginning to wind down

We only have a couple of days left to this year’s edition of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, so let me get caught up in…
July 22, 2013

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness

Split This Rock Announces Poets for 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival Diverse line-up of prominent citizen-poets to take to DC stages March 27-30, 2014…
July 21, 2013

The Book Tour–updated

It used to be that publishers would send their authors on national book tours to promote new releases. That still happens with a few…
July 20, 2013

Prime Number Magazine — Issue 41

The other editors of Prime Number Magazine and I put in a lot of work to produce our journal. We’ve been doing it for…
July 19, 2013

Blue Ridge Anthology 2013

Blue Ridge Anthology 2013 Published by Cedar Creek Publishing for the Blue Ridge Writers Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club, the Blue Ridge Anthology…
July 18, 2013

Breaking News . . .

Well, not breaking, exactly, but I was on the news last night. My group, SWAG Writers, held a reading last night at the Shenandoah Valley Art…
July 1, 2013

Museums: Virginia Museum of Fine Art

Until earlier this year, my art museum visits had been sporadic for a long time. I did manage to see the Chrysler Museum of…
June 24, 2013

New Prime Number Magazine Update

Regular readers know that I am the editor of Prime Number Magazine, an online literary quarterly with a print annual edition. Besides our quarterly…
June 21, 2013

Theater: “Anything Goes”

Now, that’s entertainment. I suppose that was the point back in 1934 when this Cole Porter musical first appeared, and that’s the point now….