Happy Holidays

I just came across this e-journal that is having an all Ohio issue--wordsonwalls.net. Have a wonderful and productive new year!!

Opportunity

I just saw this on the CWROPPS list and thought someone might be interested:

Win the chance to travel on assignment for National Geographic Traveler.
www.travelwritercontest.com

National Geographic Traveler and Travcoa, a global travel company, have
teamed up to find the next great travel writer. We're asking students all over
the North America to send us a 300-word essay on a travel experience that moved
you, excited you, or changed you. The author of the winning essay will travel on
assignment to Mongolia with National Geographic Traveler's Editor-in-Chief
Keith Bellows, courtesy of Travcoa. Even better, the winner will have his/her
story published on the National Geographic Traveler website.

Submission deadline is December 31, 2007, by 5 p.m. PST.

For more information and to enter, go to
http://www.travelwritercontest.com/

Writing in Movies

Many of you have probably seen this movie (it's four years old), but I just watched Adaptation this Sunday. I wrote a rambling review of it on my blog, but the main thing I thought might interest my fellow writers was the presence of meta-fiction in the movie. Nicolas Cage, playing the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, spends the movie writing the movie. This is the same guy who did Being John Malcovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, so it's no surprise that the movie is playful, intelligent and ultimately bizarre.

I tried to think of other examples of meta-fiction in film and failed. Maybe I just haven't seen enough movies. Can anyone else think of any?

Neo-New Blog

Blog take two: As I said before I think this can be a good place for students, alumni and faculty of the NEOMFA program to comment on their experiences in the program, and general experiences as part of an MFA program. I'd also like to use it to keep in touch for those of us who have recently graduated or will soon graduate, get to know people cross-genre, and to tell each other and any readers we may attract about books, stories, poems, essays we've managed to publish. If nothing else it can be a link exchange, but I hope it will be more than that. Welcome.