V. S. Naipaul Has Died, Barnes and Noble in Trouble, and More
How poets of color are changing contemporary poetry; writers on whether you need a creative writing MFA; revisiting Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry; and other news.
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Balloon Stories, James Baldwin’s Legacy, and More
Ilya Kaminsky on returning to his hometown; Anthony Bourdain fan fiction; a bank robber’s debut novel; and other news.
Sing Sing Book Reviewer Identified, Library Snakes, and More
Poet Anya Silver has died; Langston Hughes’s true birth year; the politics of erasure; and other news.
Go, Lemon, Go!
What does a rolling lemon gather? Apparently, a mass of viewers. Since photographer Mike Sakasegawa posted a two-minute video of a lemon he saw rolling down a hill in San Diego on Twitter last month, the video has accumulated almost ten million views, and garnered thousands of comments of encouragement and feelings of inspiration. Write a personal essay about a time when you have been cheered up or inspired by a video or photo, perhaps documented by a stranger or from someone you know. What was it about the imagery that provoked this positive response? Explore any memories or associations that might have made your viewing particularly resonant or emotional at that moment.
Bel Canto Trailer Released, Apple to Adapt Pachinko for Screen, and More
Poet Justin Phillip Reed on his debut collection; books written like television; fan fiction goes mainstream; and other news.
AWP and University of Maryland Part Ways, Flipback Books, and More
22 percent of women report being sexually harassed in the publishing industry; Astrid Holleeder’s blockbuster true-crime novel translated into English; dictionary controversy; and other news.
Boy Erased
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Boy Erased is a film based on Garrard Conley’s 2016 coming-of-age memoir of the same name. Lucas Hedges stars as a young man who is forced by his fundamental Baptist parents, played by Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman, to attend a gay conversion therapy program. The film is written and directed by Joel Edgerton, who also costars as the program’s head therapist.
Genre:
New Hemingway Story, Min Jin Lee on Minor Characters, and More
Russian writer Vladimir Voinovich has died; literary FOMO; Nation poetry editors apologize for publishing Anders Carlson-Wee poem; and other news.
Sentenced to a Sentence
“‘Not X, but also not not X.’” In a recent piece for the New York Times, Sam Anderson examines a sentence structure pattern that reappears frequently in Keith Gessen’s novel A Terrible Country (Viking, 2018). Anderson notes that many authors tend to repeat sentence structures in a move that reflects a particular worldview or expresses the author’s thought process in some way. Browse through your writing and search for one of your own signature sentence structures. Reflect and write about what this style reveals of your philosophies or how your mind works.
Vermont College of Fine Arts—Writing for Children & Young Adults
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Montpelier, VT
Application Deadline:
Tue, 10/01/2024
Application Fee:
$75
Affiliated Publications/Publishers:
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