Writer-in-residence Interlochen Writers Retreat June 12-16, 2017 http://college.interlochen.org/adult-classes/writers-retreat. http://college.interlochen.org/adult-classes/writers-practicum
Premier, February 16-17, 2017. NERUDA’S SUITCASE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL POEM FOR THE STAGE Inspired by the Sale of Lost Luggage, commissioned and and funded by a grant from Michigan Council for the Arts, this collaborative script was further developed with comparative arts students from Interlochen Arts Academy for the 2017 Year of the Pilgrim. Phoenix Theater, Interlochen Center for the Arts.
The Truer Telling: Revision in Memoir. Wednesday, January 4, 3:30-5:30, Meditation room, Pine Manor College. Class open to auditors. Sign up on Solstice website. $40.00 Class description: Revision in memoir seems like the journey to a truth we didn’t know we knew. To complicate the process, many memoirists (and other prose writers as well) make this journey by first writing incidents, anecdotes or uncontextualized history—those predicted but
Reading in The New Year: Sunday, January 1, 7:30, Founders Room, PMC. With award-winning writers Sandra Scofield and Kevin McClellen. Happy New Year!
The Solstice MFA at Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, December 30-January 8. Sorry, my workshop is closed except to Solstice students. You can always apply!
Wednesday Nov. 16th, 2016 Wege Auditorium, Aquinas College Campus Contemporary Writer’s Series. Thrilled to be invited back to the Contemporary Writer’s Series to speak as part of the CWS Twentieth Anniversary Greatest Hits celebration. (Now I’m a greatest hit? Just tickled.) Here’s the scoop on this amazing series. The Contemporary Writers Series celebrates its 20th year at Aquinas College with its 2016-2017 season. To date, 78 writers
November 15. 6-8pm. “Five Rivers.” An introductory workshop to life writing and the best strategies for entering memoir.
Harbor Springs Festival of the Book, October 1, 2016 3:00 p.m. Featuring: Made in Michigan Authors Anne-Marie Oomen, Thomas Lynch, Mardi Link, Zilka Joseph, Michael Delp.
May 16, 2010. Just before lunch, the familiar sound of “Beat It” echoes across the Mall of Western Michigan University’s campus, filling the May sunshine with the contagious Michael Jackson beat. The student dancers, some forty or so, seem to rise from all points of the mall and converge on a clear open area, and in the cool spring air, render an energetic version of