… from Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts; the Department of English; the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment; the Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing; and Penn State University Libraries. The Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence is sponsored by Steven Fisher, a 1970 alumnus in English.
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The goal of the course is to help graduate students at America's oldest university “articulate and realize an original approach to literature that, rather than take feces as a site of disgust, takes it as a site of creation,” the description says. The course catalog compares writing to digestion: “The task of
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Malte Ubl, engineering lead at the Google AMP Project, said in a blog post that AMP Stories can be easily shared or linked because because they live on the web and are hosted on the publisher's site. “While some stories are told best through text, the AMP Project wanted to ensure publishers can invest
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Smith is the author of three books of poetry: “The Body's Question,” which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet; “Duende,” winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essence Literary Award; and “Life on … She teaches creative writing at Princeton University.
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Her passions include creative writing, spirituality, sociological theory and helping others discover their own power potential. She is a hopeful and steadfast believer in positive radical change and has dedicated her practice to this objective. Tickets for Love After Loss are $35, available at the Chilliwack
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Before the trip began, Pliscott said, the participants were given a two-week crash course in South Africa, its history, its culture and its agriculture. The course involved writing essays and explaining her views on the country as she learned. Next, they stopped in Washington, D.C., where the group learned
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If you've been missing the Shades of Magic series by V.E. Schwab (has it really only been a year since A Conjuring of Light was published?), I've got some great news for you. Schwab has announced a prequel series, to be published in graphic novel format, and the first book is hitting shelves this
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This means that publishers with paywalls can bring those paywalls into Instant Articles, prompting a reader to subscribe after he or she reads five articles. The experiment's been run on Android over the past couple months but is too small to have resulted in meaningful data, Brown claimed: “We need to
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We're excited to announce an all-new podcast on The Beat — Graphic Novel TK! Graphic Novel TK is your podcast guide to the world of comic book publishing. Each episode, hosts Alison Wilgus and Gina Gagliano interview a guest expert about their slice of the publishing world and take a deep dive
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Users can now find Google stories in search results—in a box called “visual stories”—when they search on mobile at g.co/ampstories for the names of publishers that have begun using the format, such as CNN, Conde Nast, Hearst, Mashable, Meredith, Mic, Vox Media, and the Washington Post brands.
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She has taught writing courses, literature courses, and interdisciplinary inquiry courses for the past eight years, and she co-edited a composition casebook called Minding the Body: A Casebook for Writers (University of Oregon, 2015). To continue to practice the craft of teaching and to share her love of
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“The course was created to encourage students to expand their creative writing, and explore digital and traditional drawing skills.” “I am currently a member of our STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) committee, and I've seen the benefits of giving students challenges that include
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The World of Little House. Carolyn Strom Collins, Garth Williams, Christina Wyss Eriksson, Deborah Maze. Laura's Album. William Anderson. The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder. William Anderson, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House Complete 9-Book Box Set. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's Online Writing Lab provides students with a guide to help them successfully complete writing assignments not only in writing classes, but also in STEM coursework and multimedia presentations. “As more high school and college students participate in
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