Best links for 05/30/2012

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

  • 10 Easy Steps to Becoming a Writer – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education

    “Step 1: Be born strange, weird, abnormal, or any combination of those. Or have an embarrassing physical flaw, or a big brother who beats you up every day, or a sexually enticing neighbor whose tantalizing ways fog and warp your prepubescent thoughts. The result of any such influence is that you will grow up with a cockeyed view of the world and your place in it, a perception that will cause you to disavow traditional American values, maybe force you to seek solace in amorphous notions of beauty and truth, or in the soothing music of language, or in the need to create and control your own imagined universes rather than the demented universe you have been forced to inhabit. This will make your family seem like strangers to you and will foster in you an indefinable longing, which you will attempt to ease through sex, shoplifting, and, eventually, creative writing.”

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Best links for 05/29/2012

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

  • Tilghman draws on sense of place and family for novel | Daily Progress

    ‘The Charlottesville author will be talking about and signing copies of “The Right-Hand Shore” at 5:30 p.m. June 7 at New Dominion Bookshop. The novel revisits the fictional Mason family Tilghman introduced to readers in 1996 via the novel “Mason’s Retreat.” The Retreat is an antebellum estate located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The new novel takes place on one day — Sept. 8, 1920 — as the dying matriarch of the ancestral farm tells a relative about its long and sometimes brutal history.’

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Special Programs Now Accepting Applications | VCCA: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

VCCA IS CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING FELLOWSHIPS:DEADLINE TO APPLY: JUNE 15, 2012

NEW! 2 Fellowships for Social Media Artists

VCCA is breaking ground with two new fellowships specifically for the emerging genre of social media artists. These fellowships are for artists new to VCCA.

Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, VCCA is offering two fully funded, six-week fellowships for artists who are using social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube. The fellowships are for artists who are exploring ways to seamlessly integrate the social media platform into the work itself, thus finding new and compelling ways to use social media as a tool of self-expression. The fellowships are accompanied by a $2,000 stipend.

Craig Pleasants, VCCA Program Director says, “the artists selected for these fellowships will be working in ways that move art from the gallery or museum to the web, seeking ways to free art from geographical and temporal constraints. We are not defining social media artwork for this fellowship, leaving that to the artists who are pioneering this field, but the finished work must be presented on the web and be fully accessible to the netverse. We expect that the successful work will be tied to the logic of social media as well as being conceptually rich.”

The deadline for applying is June 15, 2012.This opportunity is for artists who have not previously been in residence at VCCA.

Residencies must take place between October 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013.

via Special Programs Now Accepting Applications | VCCA: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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Best links for 05/24/2012

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

  • How to Write a Book When You’re Really, Really Busy | WritersDigest.com

    ‘I am, as my mother would say, “a busy little beaver.” While writing my most recent novel, I was working full-time, going to school at UCLA and training for a 50 kilometer footrace. I also slept, ate, saw friends, posted on Twitter and Facebook, blogged, belonged to a book club and watched a number of “Mythbusters” episodes. With that kind of schedule, one question comes up a lot, especially from other writers: “When do you write?”’ Via http://ebookliteraryandmedia.com/ (Check it out!)

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Best links for 05/18/2012

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

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First Fridays Art Exhibit – The Narrative Image

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

WriterHouse is proud to host a First Fridays Art Opening on Friday, June 1, 6-8 PM. The art exhibit is titled “The Narrative Image” and features photography, painting, and prints by UVA fourth-year students Elisabeth Hogeman, Olivia Kiers, Martie Kuzzy, Cara Linnekohl, Margaret Montague, Erin Rogers, and Jada Zajur. Please join us! This event is free and open to the public.

Don’t despair if you cannot make Friday’s event – the show runs May 12 through June 15.

via First Fridays Art Exhibit – The Narrative Image.

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Best links for 05/16/2012

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

  • The Hemingway Papers

    “The legendary writer’s reporting from the Toronto Star archives, featuring historical annotations by William McGeary, a former editor who researched Hemingway’s columns extensively for the newspaper, along with new insight and analysis from the Star’s team of Hemingway experts.”

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The David Sedaris dilemma: A fine line between ‘realish’ and real – The Washington Post

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

I can’t believe we have to go through this thing again:

…While the stories themselves are hardly equals — Daisey’s was a hard-hitting exposé about industrial exploitation, Sedaris’s essays are light and personal — they both raise the question of what’s permissible in the context of a nonfiction program.“Some of his characters are made up. You can’t use a nonfiction label and do that,” said Heard, the editorial director of Outside magazine. “Hilarious dialogue is the license he gave himself. . . . [But] if it’s nonfiction, you just can’t do that.”

via The David Sedaris dilemma: A fine line between ‘realish’ and real – The Washington Post.

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Upcoming events at WriterHouse

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
Blueberry YearsFriday, May 18, 2012, 7 PM–FREE EVENT: Learning How to Laugh with author Jim Minick
Jim Minick, author of  The Blueberry Years, (called “delicious reading” by Naomi Wolf), will discuss what he learned about writing humor while toiling away in the field. He’ll read excerpts from this memoir about one of the first, certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry farms in the mid-Atlantic.

Saturday, May 19, 9am-1pm: Polishing your Prose by Minding Metaphor and Tending Time
Instructor: Jim Minick
Cost: $55.00 Members | $60.00 Non-Members Saturday, May 19, 2012 | 9:00am-1:00pm

In every genre, metaphors sweeten the writing, making an ordinary scoop of a sentence into a deluxe banana split. How do you play with language to find original metaphors and see the world anew? We’ll tackle this question in hopes of finding metaphors wherever we look. Likewise, how do writers ride that horse called time and manipulate it without losing control? The diverse ways prose writers play with time, from the micro-level to the macro, will be explored in this workshop.

“Stories that Fly“–summer writing classes for 5th-8th graders.

5-6 grades the week of June 18 and 7-8 grades the week of June 25.
Depending on demand, more sessions may be added. Teen class details will be available soon. Scholarships available for students  from low-income families.

New Seminar: Edit Your Manuscript
Instructor: Jay Kauffmann
Cost: $55 Members | $60 Non-Members
Saturday, June 9, 2012 | 9:00am-1:00pm
For Fiction and Nonfiction writers, this seminar will teach you the tools and techniques of editing, focusing on line editing, refining your prose, and preparing your manuscript for submission. We will consider the art of prose, the importance of sound, and how to construct a paragraph (in particular, a compelling opening paragraph). We will learn to write clear, rhythmic sentences-seeking a balance between lyricism and efficiency — while remaining faithful to your voice. There will be in-class exercises and readings.

The Art of the Radio Essay
Instructor: Janis Jaquith
Cost: $55 Members | $60 Non-Members
Saturday, June 23, 2012 | 9:00am-1:00pm
Ever heard those personal commentaries on NPR stations and wonder how it’s done? Learn the techniques of this performance art: how to grab the listener by the lapels; how to create a mini-movie in the minds of thousands of listeners; how to NOT sound like you’re reading from a script when, of course, you are! At least two students from the winter class have already had their essays aired on the radio!

WriterHouse Information
writers@writerhouse.org
www.writerhouse.org
508 Dale Ave, Charlottesville VA
434-296-1922

WriterHouse is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and is partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Best links for 05/11/2012

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

  • Abandoning Books with No Remorse | BOOK RIOT

    ‘I’m a loud and proud book abandoner. That’s right, I will stop reading a book if I’m not enjoying it. I like to say, “life is too short for bad books” because that’s catchier than saying “life is too short to read books you don’t enjoy and/or are not the right fit for you.” I’m a copywriter, I always go with pithy even if it’s slightly inaccurate. Becoming an abandoner was a long, slow process. For most of my life I believed that if I started a book I had to finish it. It didn’t matter how much I loathed every page *cough* American Psycho *cough*. If I read page one, I was all in. Most people I know are finishers. It’s as though there’s this weird, unspoken commandment. Thou shalt finish all books. Why is this? Where did it come from? Really, I’m curious. If you know, please do share.’

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Best links for 05/10/2012

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

  • The Millions : The Appeals and Perils of the One-Word Book Title

    “Ever since I fell in love with Jernigan I’ve been drawn to books with one-word titles – partly because Sonny Mehta loves one-word titles, but mainly because they can be so enviably concise and memorable, so perfect. At their best, one-word titles distill content to its purest essence, which is what all titles strive to do, and then they stick in the mind. Sometimes, of course, they fall flat, and much of the time they’re just lukewarm and vague or, worse, falsely grand. Over the years I’ve developed categories and a pecking order. Here is my unscientific and by no means exhaustive taxonomy, beginning with the best and ending with the worst kinds of one-word book titles:”

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BookBalloon Reading Club: Logicomix

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

June Reading Club: Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis

Logicomix“Covering a span of sixty years, the graphic novel Logicomix was inspired by the epic story of the quest for the Foundations of Mathematics. This was a heroic intellectual adventure most of whose protagonists paid the price of knowledge with extreme personal suffering and even insanity. The book tells its tale in an engaging way, at the same time complex and accessible. It grounds the philosophical struggles on the undercurrent of personal emotional turmoil, as well as the momentous historical events and ideological battles which gave rise to them.” — Logicomix.com

The discussion begins June 1 in the Forum.

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Best links for 05/04/2012

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

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Best links for 05/03/2012

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

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Best links for 05/01/2012

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

  • ErikaDreifus.com | Practicing Writing

    Are you a writer? Then you MUST subscribe to this newsletter: “Welcome to Practicing Writing! Here you’ll find updates on writing and publishing opportunities (especially handy between issues of our popular monthly newsletter). You’ll discover ONLY opportunities that charge no fees, and ONLY publications/contests that will pay for your writing. The blog also shares writing-related news, resources, and quotations; book reviews; and occasional updates regarding this practicing writer’s own work.”

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