Janae Iloreta, a junior English and creative writing major and co-president of ASO, said her experiences as a Filipino woman have taught her the importance of recognizing intersectionality. “Being a female in the Asian community is different than being a male in the Asian community. I have an older
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The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is partnering with the Norman Mailer Center in New York City to bring the Mailer Writers Colony summer writing workshops to Wilkes-Barre and serve as their permanent home. Named in honor of the late Pulitzer
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Now, authors and followers of Outskirts Press on social media can up-vote for their favorite video on the Outskirts Press blog to determine the winner of the Microsoft Surface Pro laptop computer. The winning contestant will be announced via the Outskirts Press “Self-Publishing News” blog on Feb. 28
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This week on The Reading Life (February 18, 20, and 21): Tulane professor of creative writing Zachary Lazar, whose new novel is “Vengeance,” which … The Friends of the Terrebonne Parish Public Library will hold their 15thannual Jambalaya Writer's conference March 3 at the Main Library in Houma.
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The play's protagonist, Aaron Port, is a barely published writer from downtown Manhattan who commutes on the Long Island Rail Road once a week to the Nassau County suburb to instruct a gaggle of housewives and two men on the art of creative writing. Half the students — including Frieda Cohen,
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The Paul Robeson Cultural Center (PRCC) will continue the Radical Justice Speaker Series by hosting Janet Mock, author and transgender activist. Mock's talk will be held on Feb. 20 in Heritage Hall of the HUB-Robeson Center. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 7 p.m. This
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And many of us aspire to transform whatever serious hobby we've got going — whether it's creative writing or weightlifting — into a serious side hustle we could maybe even monetize some day — if we're not making money off of it already!
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