Category: Workshops and Retreats

May 24, 2009

>Off to Kimmel Harding Nelson

>I’m very excited to be preparing for a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. During my two weeks there, I…
February 11, 2009

>AWP 2009

>I’m off to Chicago for the AWP Conference. No laptop, no blogging. Just listening and talking and watching and socializing. I’ll probably do some…
December 9, 2008

>VCCA Arrival

>This is my fourth residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and I’ve really been looking forward to it as a way…
November 12, 2008

>Under the Volcano with Sandra Cisneros

>I’ve written here before about my wonderful experiences at a small workshop in Tepoztlan, Mexico called Under the Volcano. I’ve studied there with Russell…
October 28, 2008

>Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

>I had some good news last week. I learned that I’ve been awarded a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts…
August 26, 2008

>Writers in Waiting, Waiting on Writers

>There’s a fun story from the August 24 edition of The Washington Post about the waiters at Bread Loaf. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
August 20, 2008

>Bread Loaf

>Bread Loaf 2008 is going on right now, through the end of this week. I’m not there, of course, but I bet I’d be…
July 28, 2008

>Sewanee Reflections

>Even though I skipped a number of sessions this year, Sewanee 2008 was my busiest, thanks to Tim O’Brien. As my primary reader this…
July 26, 2008

>Sewanee: Day 12

>This is it. The end. For those of us whose workshops ended on Friday, Saturday morning was quiet. I visited the bookstore and Stirling’s…
July 26, 2008

>Sewanee: Day 11

>Things are clearly winding down. The program is still ongoing, but we can feel the end approaching. Friday morning we had a presentation by…