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WUSTL Summer Writers Institute 2022 Craft Talk

Topic: A Tribute to Sensory Details and Self Care

Description: This craft talk will focus on writing strategies that engage readers. A whiff of fresh bread, the feeling of a shoe stuck in gum, the sound of skiers carving snow—if you can access memories and feelings via the five senses, readers will care about your world and come along for the ride. But what toll does immersive writing take on us when some of the events we portray involve dramatic and/or traumatic memories? Let’s talk about the self-respect and love that goes into writing close-to-the-bone plotlines! Examples for this talk will include fiction and nonfiction prose.

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Nation to Nation_ Indigenous Voices on Reckoning and Reconciliation

Pen America – World Voices Festival

Events

May 11-14, 2022

NYC – LA

The PEN World Voices Literary Festival is the premier celebration of international literature in the United States, a landmark event on New York City’s, and now Los Angeles’s, cultural calendar. Join us live and in person in New York City and Los Angeles from May 11–14, 2022 for four days with more than 80 writers from 25 countries who will be featured in 30 cross-cultural exchanges and events—from lively debates that delve into the most pressing issues of our time, to intimate conversations that awaken us to the quiet beauty and power of literature.

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On Bison Skulls and Trains

Publications

A train rumbles down the track and passes beneath my feet. I’ve parked my bike under a streetlamp and am bent over the bridge’s handrail to watch it head west. Boxcars flit forward. It’s midnight, my first summer in Iowa City, and a bout of loneliness has punched me in the gut.More

This American Paradise

Publications

“Paradise looks the same,” I tell the kids as we get out of the rental car at my Uncle Mick’s house. We’re exhausted from nearly 2000 miles of highway. The glare of lights from our tribal casino, The Paradise, is even more egregious than I’d remembered it.More