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 [...]

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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. [...]

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Upcoming events at WriterHouse

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

Friday, 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 [...]

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Immerse Yourself, Briefly: A Contest « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

New contest at BREVITY: To celebrate Robin Hemley’s new book, A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel, we are launching a quick contest.  You have one month, until May 11th, to immerse yourself, in something.  If it is water, be sure that you can swim. If it is honey, watch out for bears. [...]

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Enrique Urueta at WriterHouse Saturday, March 17

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

Seminar and presentation at WriterHouse THIS Saturday: There are still spaces available in this coming Saturday’s seminar “Say What? Writing Better Dialogue by Thinking Dramatically” with play wright Enrique Urueta. This seminar is for fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, playwrights, screenwriters, anybody whose dialogue could use improvement. Whether you write fiction or drama, your ability [...]

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March and May seminars at WriterHouse

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

Upcoming seminars at WriterHouse: » On Friday, March 23, 9:30am-Noon, join us for Erika Dreifus’s seminar on freelance writing. This session will provide an overview of the varied opportunities that exist for writers to transform their own knowledge and interests into freelance bylines. Although we’ll use a shared pursuit–writing itself–as a starting-point, we’ll also discuss [...]

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Upcoming events at WriterHouse: February & March

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

Coming to WriterHouse: » Friday February 3, First Fridays Art Opening for Robert Boucheron’s “The Imaginary City,” a series of pen and ink drawings of buildings, streets, and towns.  The scenes recall European and American cities of the nineteenth century and earlier, drawn freehand and to scale. » Thursday, February 9, 7pm, “Making a Graphic [...]

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Jonathan Coleman, conference panel coming to WriterHouse

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

Coming soon (very soon!) to WriterHouse: » Join us on Wednesday, January 18th at 7PM for “The Art of Responsibility of Narrative Nonfiction Writing” with Jonathan Coleman. Coleman is the bestselling author of Exit the Rainmaker, At Mother’s Request and Long Way To Go and co-author of the New York Times bestseller West by West, [...]

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WriterHouse: Remembering 2011, Looking Forward to 2012

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

From WriterHouse: During 2011, WriterHouse completed its third year of operation. Hard to believe it’s been such a short time, considering all we’ve accomplished. Here’s a very brief bulleted list of 2011′s highlights: WriterHouse won the inaugural Emyl Jenkins Award for a “…Virginia individual or organization that…makes Virginia a better place for writers” A record [...]

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Announcements from WriterHouse

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

  Tuesday, November 29, 7:00pm–Charles J. Shields (Mockingbird; I Am Scout) has written what Publishers Weekly calls an “engrossing, definitive” biography of cultural icon Kurt Vonnegut. , And So It Goes has just been named a New York Times Notable Book for 2011. Join us at WriterHouse as Charles discusses his new book and the biographer’s art. [...]

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Unleash Your Inner Poet with Mariflo Stephens November 12

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

Check out this upcoming seminar at WriterHouse: Seminar: Unleash Your Inner Poet Instructor: Mariflo Stephens Cost: $55 WriterHouse Members | $60 Non-Members Saturday, November 12, 2011 | 9:00am-1pm A short poetry class for non-poets—the curiosity seeker, the timid versifier. If you’ve ever wanted to try writing poetry but don’t want to jump in the deep [...]

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Sneak peeks at upcoming Vonnegut bio

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

An excerpt and a video:  

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Tayari Jones to discuss “Silver Sparrow” at WriterHouse Oct. 9

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

Author Tayari Jones will discuss family secret-keeping, loyalty and betrayal at a Literary Salon at WriterHouse on Sunday, October 9 at 2:00. “Tayari Jones is fast defining middle-class black Atlanta the way Cheever did Westchester,” according to The Village Voice, while Judy Blume says this novel will “break your heart before you even know it.” [...]

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John Warner, “The Funny Man,” at WriterHouse this weekend

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

This weekend at WriterHouse: Two events with John Warner (not the former senator) John Warner, novelist, humorist, editor for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and TMN’s Biblioracle, will be visiting all the way from Charleston Friday to discuss satire (and his new novel The Funny Man) and Saturday to give a seminar on writing funny. See the [...]

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Learn to write funny or scary at WriterHouse this fall

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

Two more classes on offer at WriterHouse: Seminar: So You Want to Write Something Funny? Instructor: John Warner Cost: $55 Members | $60 Non-Members Saturday, October 1, 2011 | 9:00am-1pm It’s easy. Wait, no it isn’t. Yes it is, once you’ve completed this seminar with McSweeney’s Internet Tendency editor and author of The Funny Man [...]

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