About Me

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" has been named one of "Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read!" I would love to visit your bookclub, either in person (in the South) or through the magic of electronics. My writing has received a "Special Mention" for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. I have been honored with a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT., a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Locally, I teach workshops in creative writing, memoir, and feature journalism, and am a member of the faculty of an art college, where I teach screenwriting. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) and a B.S. in Communication from Emerson College, in Boston. I used to work in television. I did not push the broom behind the elephant. Usually, I served as mahout - I drove the (allegorical) elephant. If he was SAG or AFTRA. Rock stars do not scare me.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

There's No Place Like Home...


... and there's no place like the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop . Here's a picture of the fabulous Finn House, home of the Kenyon Review (it's Carpenter Gothic, for you architecture geeks like me, which is apparently also called Steamboat Gothic, thanks Anna for that info!)

What a wonderful week, assisting the brilliant and kind Rebecca McClanahan (essayists, heads up, The Riddle Song is on your reading lists, right??) working with, guiding, and learning from our Literary Nonfiction workshop writers, talents all.

Shout out to new pals Amos and the Jasons squared, also the skunks, rabbits, green grass and blue sky, and the fact that I really could start my day and wait an hour for coffee...sort of.

Invisible Sisters sold out at the bookstore after the faculty/fellows reading night! H. rocks for ordering more.

Workshops are important daily nutrition for your art, writers! I've got new ideas, new prompts, and re-invigorated work that was weak, but now... it's alive!

4 comments:

Collin Kelley said...

Sounds like you're having a ball! Congrats on the success.

Dave Stallard said...

Sounds great. I'm jealous.

You should have seen the HELLHOLE I spent last week at. ;)

jessica handler said...

What hellhole was that? Certainly not Cambridge!

Dave Stallard said...

Let's just say that it has the term "proving ground" in its name. I'll have to email you the details.

I like the gingerbread trim on that house - a little restrained, not too the gaudy. Nicer than chain-link, that's for sure!