>Sun setting on Tinker Mountain

>The week is just about over. In addition to the stellar workshop with Pinckney Benedict, in the last two days we’ve had the pleasure of readings by Andrew Hudgins (from Babylon in a Jar, his most recent poetry collection)and Dan Mueller, who read his wonderfully bizarre story, Tina Louise. Yesterday Andrew gave a craft lecture, essentially reading a journal that he wrote a few years ago on the process of creating a poem (an ode to the intestines) which was published later in The Paris Review and is in his new collection.

We’ve also had student readings and, um, parties. Today we wrap up. It’s been fun!

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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