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What can I say? These kids are the best. Sure, most of them were “required” to attend my faculty reading at Interlochen Center for the Arts. They are, after all, Creative Writing [...]

Living on campus with 5,000 artists–youth and colleagues alike–is pretty incredible. It’s one of the things that keeps me coming back to Interlochen every summer. I walk to my [...]

It’s the end of a 14 hour day and I stare at the two things left on my calendar: blog and novel. For a moment, my throat catches. I’ve put writing last, well past my hour of fatigue, [...]

Being “artistic director” of a retreat sure is fun. The way I see it, if I do my job right all winter and spring, by the time June rolls around I can spend most of the retreat running [...]

I’m dispatching this week as Artistic Director for the annual Interlochen College of Creative Arts Writer’s Retreat. It’s 5 days on a beautiful campus between two lakes with 4 [...]

When started to pack for 8 weeks in Interlochen, Michigan and its surrounding cities, the first thing I reached for was my books. I’m taking far more than I can finish in two months, but [...]

This weekend I got my first real taste of “book tour living.” The whirlwind kicked off with a fundraiser for Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in Burnsville. This event included [...]

It’s dawning on me how difficult this is going to be. With two hometown readings complete and one to go, I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you that I fear “it’s all [...]

Flashes of War is officially launched and I know now that there is nothing better than a home town audience. These 45+ smiling faces belong to people I know and love…many of whom had never heard [...]