Category: writers
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What You Missed at the Lamdba Awards
Both [Terrence] McNally and Albee spoke of what it means to be a gay author. In accepting his award, Albee said, “I’m not a gay writer. I’m a writer who happens to be gay … I’ve written a number of plays with gay characters in them, but I have never written a play that could […]
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Please spread this around.
The Writer’s Center Announces Fellowships for Emerging Writers The Writer’s Center, metropolitan DC’s community gathering place for writers and readers, is currently accepting submissions for several competitive Emerging Writer Fellowships. Emerging Writer Fellows will be selected from applicants who have published up to 2 book-length works of prose and up to 3 book-length works of […]
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The Return of Laurie Notaro
Last night I trekked into DC to catch the Laurie Notaro reading event at what turned out to be the most cleverly hidden Borders store in the world. I first encountered Laurie’s work when my old roommate Julia plastered magnets of Laurie’s book covers all over our fridge and then proceeded to read passage after […]
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Welcome to the Jungle
A few wonderful people have joined my blogroll in the past few weeks, and I wanted to point them out to you: Aimée Baker, one of my colleagues at the Piper Center for Creative Writing, stays up far too late and sleeps in until the day’s half over. But she’s also blogging now, and she […]
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Wait…are you saying literature isn’t dead?
I think one of my biggest minor annoyances in life is talking to people about literature. Books. When I meet people, I generally don’t offer up that I write, although it is frequently a question that follows once people have asked what I do for a living, since it seems a natural extension of the […]
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Lee Gutkind on The Daily Show
Jon Stewart interviewed Lee Gutkind, founder of the journal Creative Nonfiction, on The Daily Show this week. Lee was in residence with us at the Piper Center for Creative Writing this semester and spent some time promoting his new book, Almost Human: Making Robots Think. The interview here is pretty funny. http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/syndicated_player/index.jhtml
Charles Jensen | Writer 