NEO WRITE

2011-05-02T11:57:00.000-07:00

Author Interview

2008-02-05T09:29:00.000-08:00

For anyone who missed it, John Edgar Wideman was a guest on the Diane Rehm show yesterday at eleven. If you're interested, you can listen here: wamu.org/programs/dr/08/02/04.php#18146

Listserve

2008-01-18T09:11:00.000-08:00

So does anyone else giggle a little when people accidentally respond to the whole listserve? I think I've done it my self so I guess I shouldn't...

New Blog

2008-01-13T21:12:00.001-08:00

Hi guys. Just wanted to draw your attention to Rick Strong's new blog. It's at: http://rickstrongcafe.blogspot.com and is now linked in the sidebar. About half of us are linked to personal blogs now, the rest link back to this site... click through them and check out your fellow writers if you get a chance. And if you start your own personal blog just throw me an email: hadesarrow at yahoo dot com.

Tara Broeckel also just joined us, hello Tara!

If anyone has any suggestions to things they'd like to see on this site (I'm hoping to add an rss feed for all our participating bloggers for example) go ahead and post it. If it's possible with my limited tech skills and time I'll try to make it happen.

New Semester

2008-01-07T12:17:00.000-08:00

I'll be taking a single class this semester: Neal Chandler's Nonfiction workshop. That finishes my credit requirements so the only other thing I need to think about is the dreaded thesis.

Actually my thesis seems to be going pretty well. I'm doing a novel and I'm roughly a hundred pages in, which honestly is already further than I thought I could get. I didn't even try to write anything over break, I thought my head could use some time away from Faerieland, Oregon and I'm hoping that will help me return to my manuscript with a fresh mind. How about you, did those of you out there in NEOMFA land use the Winter break as extra work time, or as time to put things away for a little while?

Happy Holidays

2007-12-27T05:32:00.000-08:00

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

Opportunity

2007-12-20T06:25:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-19T12:18:00.001-08:00

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

2007-12-18T12:16:00.000-08:00

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.