The Writing Life

I had an incredible weekend at Interlochen College of Creative Arts teaching my Deep Revision course. My gears are still turning, meantime, here are some stunning shots from peak fall in Northern [...]

This weekend I travel to Interlochen Center for the Arts in northern Michigan to teach a 10-hour weekend-long course in Deep Revision for fiction and nonfiction. This is a new course for me and [...]

I’ve been waiting for today since April, when I first learned that my work was being considered for the Queen’s Ferry Press Best Small Fictions anthology. Today, the 2015 collection [...]

Continuing the conversation from earlier this week, I want to share some of my encounters with the cadets during my visit to the United States Air Force Academy. This blog is somewhat like a [...]

It’s been an interesting two days, with two more to go, and my mind is buzzing with fragments from the conversations I’ve been able to have so far during my visit to the United States [...]

At SUNY Binghamton, I had the opportunity to meet with a class of graduate and undergradute students who studied Flashes of War. This unique class meets only 5 times over the course of semester, [...]

This Saturday evening, I’ll be giving a new craft lecture, “Narrative Genesis and Imagination” at Interlochen Center for the Arts at 5pm in The Writing House. A handful of The [...]

It’s been an exciting month to formally launch my new Writer at Large Services and I’m happy to report that by using my existing contacts–current students, past students, and a [...]

(source) I spent a few short days in Boston last week as a guest to the Solstice MFA in Writing at Pine Manor College program. Although I’ve taught students with graduate degrees before, it [...]

Dear Friends, Tuesday, May 27th marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of Flashes of War. In celebration, I’m dubbing this day BOOK EVENT #52 and conducting it  from the [...]