The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced the recipients of 2018's creative writing and translation fellowships, which amount to $25,000 grants for prose and $12,500 or $25,000 for translation. Out of 36 creative writing fellowships, four recipients come from Massachusetts, as do one of the
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The writers, selected and introduced by poet Tess Taylor, include author Hollie Hardy, poet Iris Jamahl Dunkle and author Tongo Eisen-Martin. Hardy is the author of “How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems” and winner of the 2016 Annual Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches at the San
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Claire Eder, the secretary of the Graduate Employee Organization who is a graduate student studying creative writing, attended the rally because she believes Trump's tax plan will hurt graduate students. Eder said she is scared that if the tax plan passes, graduate tuition waivers will become taxable
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MONROE — Bad writing stifles careers and damages organizations. To help working professionals meet the growing demand to write effective mobile-friendly emails, engaging social media posts and other messages that break through the clutter, ATD Press has released the second edition of “10 Steps
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of Creative Writing,. University of Limerick. Sir, – The passing of a supplementary budget to cover the cost of Garda overtime would suggest that the nation's coffers are by no means drained. If such is the case, would it not be appropriate now to introduce a far less costly budgetary supplement to provide
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King also makes a point to address the notion that musicians and artists need drugs to fuel their creative prowess: “Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers—common garden-variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer
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