“I'd turn my dining and living room into two full-sized classrooms that we'd use to hold creative writing classes all day and night,” one of the letters requesting signatures said. “That way we get the publicity we need and our students get the same class, but in a more fun environment.” In a statement
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“Villegas went from foxhole to foxhole until he was killed by enemy fire, and it caused his whole troop to have the courage to go forward in battle,” said Allison Hedge Coke, a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. Yet in spite of his receipt of the prestigious
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Downtown Lexington Partnership and the Downtown Lexington Management District will host a public open house to gather feedback and suggestions on how to chart the future of Downtown Lexington. The session will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. March 21 in the Bluegrass Ballroom at Hilton Lexington
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Peter Balakian Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian '73, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and director of creative writing at Colgate University, is the 13th Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters at Bucknell. Pulitzer Prize-winning
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Another BC Book Prizes finalist is Cloverdale-based author Andrea MacPherson, whose “What We Once Believed” (Caitlin Press) is nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, awarded to the author of the best work of fiction. MacPherson, who teaches creative writing and literature, is the author of two
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Alongside its usual range of souvenirs and titles from its internal publishing house “EditionPorsche Museum”, the museum shop will be selling the new Porsche Driv-er's Selection product collection for the first time in celebration of “70 years of the Porsche sports car”. Selected products will also be
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Canada's History is a national charitable organization whose mission is to promote greater popular interest in Canadian history, principally through its publishing, education, and recognition programs. In addition to administering the Government of Canada History Awards and publishing Canada's
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Cheryl Rebottaro Times Publishing Group Inc tpgonlinedaily.com Each client is unique and Cheryl has a customized approach for each one whether an individual, a family or a business. Cheryl helps them create an individualized financial strategy on a number of programs, whether for retirement,
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A Danbury, Conn.-based publishing services company has chosen Dayton as the site of its new K-12 division headquarters, with three local publishing industry veterans at the helm. Westchester K-12 Publishing Services, a division of Westchester Publishing Services, recently moved into a
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A suspected Russian football hooligan has been charged with paralysing an England fan after attacking him with an iron bar. The 31-year-old suspect has not been officially identified, although Russian media have reported his first name as 'Pavel'. He is alleged to have repeatedly struck 50-year-old
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This year marks the 225 anniversary of Cazenovia's founding in 1793, and in recent months the Cazenovia Republican has been publishing various articles on Cazenovia history. In addition to our weekly installments of “Years Ago in Cazenovia History,” the Cazenovia Public Library has submitted
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He sent his first novel, written at age 13, to a publisher but he misaddressed it and the manuscript, his only copy, was never returned. Perhaps the trauma of loss has sustained his insistence on self-publishing. Nine titles, including short-story collections, memoirs, children's fiction and a book of poems,
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National Geographic made ripples today by acknowledging that the famous yellow-bordered magazine spent decades of its history publishing photographs … was scheduled to be a special issue on the subject of race, National Geographic “decided it had better take a good hard look at its own history.
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