Lucky me, I get a First Look at a new HarperCollins publication, 40 Days and 40 Nights, by Matthew Chapman. I’ve applied for a couple of First Look books in the past, but this is the first one I’ve “won.” I’m looking forward to it — I read Chapman’s Trials of the Monkey, a memoir [...]
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The Ix Project is sponsoring a contest for writers, poets, painters, sculptors, playwrights, photographers, and filmmakers (yep, that should cover just about everybody). The theme is “Show us global warming through your eyes.” Deadline for submissions: 5:00 p.m., May 4. More details here (pdf).
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The Charlottesville Writing Center website has been promising a new slate of adult fiction and poetry classes starting in March. Yesterday I saw a classified ad in The Hook deferring classes until April: From the Charlottesville Writing Center Attention Youth! Freedom Writers summer writing camps begin this June. Send an email to cwc@cvillewrites.org for more [...]
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This postcard was mailed from Washington, DC in September, 1942, by “U M” (Uncle M?) to Miss Hazel Pfeifer of Sarcoxie, Missouri. Spout Springs is a natural spring that emerges from Beaver Bluff, just south of Shoals. The reverse reads: “Dear Hazel, It seems I don’t have much time to write letters but thought of [...]
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