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The Promise of Failure: One Writer’s Perspective on Not Succeeding (University of Iowa Press, 2018) is part memoir of the writing life, part advice book, and part craft book; sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, but always honest.
The Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing program will once again host readings by some of the world’s finest contemporary writers during its 10-day residency in Seaside, Oregon.
Guest speakers for the January 2019 residency include:
The editorial team of Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads is pleased to announce the official web launch of issue twenty, a celebration of over ten years and three hundred works published from around the world.
Jan Bottiglieri MFA ’11 was the poetry winner of the Bellevue Literary Review Prizes for her poem, “Particle.”
Amy Paterson MFA ’18 died Nov. 6, 2018, at age 46, surrounded by her family at home.
Debbie Hall MFA ’17 had her poem “Red Dragonfly” featured by online poetry magazine Califragile.
Kathleen Sheeran MFA ’14 edited the newly published anthology, Tricked: An Anthology of Short Fiction, under her pen name, Kate Sheeran Swed.
Elizabeth Levinson MFA ’11 published an article in Green Teacher magazine’s Fall 2018 issue about the impact of narrative structure on the human brain.