Just finished my first scholarship application to support my MFA. It’s a remarkable scholarship supporting many more folks than you’d usually see in a final scholarship pool. The awards range from $50-$300, which seems small in comparison to the $15k I’ll likely spend the first semester, but it’s a start.
I pulled together a poem and [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Reaching Out
Posted in Asking and Receiving, Practicing Risk, tagged Communal Narrative, Risk Taking, Scholarships, Submission on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Backstory
Posted in Backstory, tagged Children's Writing, FilAm History, Historic Fiction, Non-Fiction, SCBWI on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My original thought was to apply to low-residency MFA programs that had strong non-fiction faculty. I started with the local ones near Seattle, WA, then asked the advice of colleagues and friends at Western. I narrowed the field to three, one of which was Vermont College.
I admit that Children’s Writing wasn’t on my radar right [...]
First Steps
Posted in Lyrical, tagged Beginnings, Hawaii, Memory, Palouse on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On a shimmering Sunday afternoon, I stood overlooking the Palouse, a coin in my hand. Anything could happen – a wish, a hope, a denial, a failure. Didn’t matter, though, and I placed that coin on the curve of my thumb, flipped it in the air and let it drop to the picnic table beside me.
It [...]
