Buried Words

Long overdue congratulations to Karen Vastola Smith and her play, Buried Words, performed at the Fringe festival in NYC. I am so glad I snuck out on a Monday afternoon to see it! So proud to know her as a friend and colleague!

Published "13 Ways"

Just thought I give y'all a shout, and give some good news as your semesters are starting up.  My poem, "13 Ways of Looking at My Sister," which many of you have read, critiqued, and helped me greatly improve in OMGW has been published in MUSED's autumn equinox issue.  In the link, you can see all previous issues, and the current one when they get it up and running.

Hope everyone's excited about the new semester, and a special good luck to all those entering the thesis semester! 

Writing Contest At Esquire

I hope everyone does this contest and if you win, you'd better bring me!(seriously) By the way I've read that short short by Hemingway before and it's devastating. Here's the link again...http://www.esquire.com/fiction/short-short-fiction-contest-2011?click=pp

Press Pause Moments Receives Clarion Award

I wanted to share some exciting news. My book, Press Pause Moments: Essays about Life Transitions by Women Writers, has been honored with the coveted 2011 Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications. I plan to travel to the national conference in October to accept the award.

For all of you writers out there, I think this is important that a collection of essays has beat out an amazing and highly competitive field. Keep writing what is in your hearts!

http://www.presspausemoments.com/

Last Minute Internship Idea

Susan Bysiewicz is looking for people to work on her internship program. If you need to get in on an internship, check it out by clicking on the title.

a fairly new journal that might interest some of you...

Precipitate: Journal of the New Environmental Imagination

They contacted me looking for submissions. So send something, if you have work that's appropriate for the journal!

http://www.precipitatejournal.com/home/

Master Classes

Hello All,

Meant to ask this at the wrap-up meeting, but neglected to do so. How did you feel about the Master Classes? Would you like to see that format (everyone attends) repeated, or would you prefer to have workshop choices on those days as well. A few of you did mention this on your evaluation form, but responses went both ways. Would love to have as much feedback as possible on this as I prepare to fill in the January schedule.

bc

Moody Doc on Revision

Hello All,

Laurel has scanned Rick's revision paper and posted it on the MFA website at his invitation. Here's the link:

http://www.wcsu.edu/writing/mfa/Rick%20Moody%20A%20Guide%20to%20Revision.pdf

bc

Resources for writers using Twitter and other social media

I found a useful article on the top 10 Twitter hashtags for writers. Worth reading through:

Publishing Talk – 10 Twitter Hashtags for Writers

As I find other articles and resources I will list them in this blog post and Tweet (I despise using this term) them with the hashtag #WCSUwritingMFA. Please share yours too!

Thanks for the Residency!

Congrats and thanks to everyone for a fine residency. Whether the recent grads who gave their time so generously, the new incoming students, or the folks in between, I greatly admire the quality of students and of people we have coming through the program. Thanks, too, to the two Dans (Pope and Rose) and all the other mentors who found time to enrich the residency week. Looking forward to seeing everyone again in January...!

Join the Twitter conversation

Use the hashtag #WCSUwritingMFA to converse with your MFA Writing classmates on Twitter!

Update: I have created a Twitter List of students, graduates and other program affiliates which I will upate continually. You can view and follow the list it at: http://twitter.com/#!/list/dtgriffith/wcsu-mfa-writing. 

Follow me @dtgriffith and identify yourself from the MFA program, I will add you to the list.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Social Media But Were Afraid to Ask ;)

Hi Everyone,

David Griffith & I will be conducting an informal discussion on social media, including creating a website, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn, tomorrow (August 5th) in room CC 315 at 3 p.m.

Feel free to stop by!

Cheers,
Larissa