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It seems that in every creative writing class I take, Eudora Welty’s name is invoked. The woman had a lot to say about writing. A quick search on the internet will give you hundreds of thousands of hits of her…
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Read my last mini-essay here. The Collection as Form This seminar by Kathryn Rhett, instructor at Queens University of Charlotte, explored the works of three different authors and genres. In poetry, we read The Well Speaks of its Own Poison…
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MFA ESSAYS Now that I am a MFA student in Creative Writing (Fiction) at Queens University, I am required to write a few short comparative literature essays about the books we read and the seminars we attended. I figured, might…
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Recently, I was accepted into Emerson College’s MFA in Creative Writing program. For those of you who don’t know, Emerson is an arts college located in Boston, MA. For a minute, I’d thought I’d be moving to Boston in the…
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There is no doubt about it: travel is dangerous. And I’m not just talking about going into war zones or taking that unlicensed ferry across a dark and stormy sea. Travel is dangerous to your perspectives, your opinions, your outlook…
Continue readingAll photos from Sirkus Islands Facebook Page. Used with permission. Skip to the Important part Random Pub on a corner Reykjavik, Iceland Saturday, 13 December 2014 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time Looking For Entertainment Maria and I have followed our noses…
Continue readingWhat does it mean to be home? I’ve lived in Edinburgh over a year now, and I’ll be leaving permanently in just under three weeks. When I left the US last August, I didn’t really want to go. I was…
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