Halfway through a residency!

As a perky pick-me-up, Lindsey Bogason gave a graduate presentation called “That’s Entertainment! The Value of a Good Beach Read”.

Lindsey convinced us that sometimes there’s nothing wrong with writing just for entertainment purposes.

I also want to note that among the …

The bus picked everyone up at 7:45AM and took us to the Stonehouse. The road to Stonehouse weaves through Wolfe’s Neck State Park under arches of trees. It truly feels, when we emerge on the other side, like we are in a different, magical, writerly world.

For the graduate student presentations I …

We’ve no doubt all heard the cliche, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But award-winning author Neil Gaiman turns this phrase on its head and, with The Graveyard Book, explores a much more interesting premise: “It takes a graveyard to raise a child.” The prospect leads to tantalizing …