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That's 22K, baby. Maybe even 23.

by Tulasi-Priya on Friday 18 May 2012

I just saw that Tin House is accepting applications for their 2012 writing workshop. I see that fiction and poetry are filled, but Nonfiction/Memoir is not. What does that mean, I wonder? Is the memoir trend waning? I thought I’d give it a look, but it’s a little beyond my means, and besides, I don’t [...]

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Why Not?

May 14, 2012

I’m sitting on the toilet (pants up), laptop on lap, writing this post in the Ramada Inn in Charleston, West Virginia. My husband is asleep and has a cold, so I’m trying to keep things quiet. I was just at an event called the Festival of Inspiration. No internet access, no cell phone. I didn’t [...]

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Katherine Russell Rich 1955-2012

April 6, 2012

Katherine Russell Rich, author of the memoirs Dreaming in Hindi, and Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer and Back, died on April 3rd after an incredible 24-year battle with Stage IV breast cancer. I found out from Leah Hager Cohen’s blog. KRR had been told after the first recurrence that she had, at most, two [...]

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