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August 28, 2017
Writing Alone and Out Loud
I’ve always wanted to be the type of person who writes in coffee shops. A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in LA and I had one goal: to sit in a coffee shop and write. It felt like the LA thing ...
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November 15, 2017Randle W. Nelsen on Universities' Role in Maintaining Inequality & the Problematic Corporatization of Education
With tuition skyrocketing, student debt burdens burgeoning, and the market value of degrees plummeting, the role and function of universities becomes more and more tenuous. Conversations around that role ...
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June 21, 2014Social Media Bare Minimums for Authors
Have a new book coming out? Don't want to self-promote? Too bad. You must do at least these few things if you want to get the book rolling:1. Like it or not, you’re in the business of trying to sell ...
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February 24, 2017
On Racism 1 of 3
This three part piece is my final for the month. I hope that I've generated debate and sparked conversation. Thank you and take care.On RacismI live in a country that not long before my birth, had an ...
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October 28, 2016
Poetic Inspiration IV
This is the fourth in a series of posts highlighting inventive poems that have broadened my sense of what poems can be and do, and sparked me to stretch further in my own work. (The previous instalments ...
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December 31, 201617 for 2017: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore recommends For the Children?: Protecting Innocence In A Carceral State
14. For the Children?: Protecting Innocence In A Carceral State by Erica R. Meiners recommended by Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreThroughout my tenure as the December Writer-In-Residence, I will be assembling ...
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January 01, 201717 for 2017: Wanda Nanibush recommends The Winter We Danced
15. The Winter We Danced edited by The Kino-nda-niimi Collective recommended by Wanda NanibushThroughout my tenure as the December Writer-In-Residence, I will be assembling a list of 17 must-read-books ...
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January 01, 201717 for 2017: Jasbir Puar recommends The Fifth Season
16. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin recommended by Jasbir Puar Throughout my tenure as the December Writer-In-Residence, I will be assembling a list of 17 must-read-books for 2017. To accomplish this ...
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April 29, 2018Dream Space: an interview with Arielle Twist
Arielle Twist is a writer and sex educator from George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan who currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a Cree, Two-Spirit, trans femme supernova writing to reclaim ...
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July 20, 2018On Literary Festivals and Crossed Boundaries
As a writer of creative nonfiction—in particular, one who draws very heavily from my own life and experiences—I’ve learned it’s important to determine whether something I want to write about is ...
