March 10, 2009, Below is an announcement for a reading this Friday in the Minneapolis area, near the astonishing Mississippi River. I am racing to do too much. Little wheels spinning like a cartoon character. Haven't posted. Great excuses. The world is the biggest. Visiting my senator (we still only have one in Minnesota), and… Continue reading Reading at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
Category: News; things to look for
Writer’s Block versus The Head Cornerstone! A mighty battle!
July 30, 2008 Dear Writers, I wouldn’t exactly say I am on a roll, like some blog-crazy youngster, but I do feel the need to write more on writing, this big mystery, not as great a mystery as determining the location and nature of evil, or understanding what love actually is, but it is a… Continue reading Writer’s Block versus The Head Cornerstone! A mighty battle!
Good stuff coming very soon! Online class; local mentorship groups.
Dear Friends, Get in on it! February 25, 2008 I will begin teaching an online class for Writers.com called Claiming Our Stories: Working with the Power of Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction. There are not many places left, so if you have been fencesitting, jump in and sign up as soon as possible! I am very excited about it,… Continue reading Good stuff coming very soon! Online class; local mentorship groups.
Why won’t Devil-girl just go away? Why now, the re-release of The Stories of Devil-girl?
On a simple level, here is an opportunity to support good literature at a time when The Market is often powerful at blocking quality and truth. And, in this case, this is an opportunity to help support organizations that are proven to be effective and bold and devoted to working to improve the lives of some of the… Continue reading Why won’t Devil-girl just go away? Why now, the re-release of The Stories of Devil-girl?
Good-bye to the blink of an eye year; taking hold of this one coming, to step fully into writing.
I wrote the below last week, in a snowstorm. I want to remind you to check the previous post, some good newsy stuff to notice, and to let you know that Grand Web Master Brian Tanaka has pointed to January 11 for the likely release of The Stories of Devil-girl novella-download, so expect more news soon. In the… Continue reading Good-bye to the blink of an eye year; taking hold of this one coming, to step fully into writing.
Newsy stuff up top. Extraordinary writer stuff below.
I have been waiting for some news necessary to get going with the re-release of my novella, The Stories of Devil-girl, but while our intrepid Devil-child is currently in a holding pattern, there is some light in the cave. I am anxious to get this recording to you, and to send a portion of the proceeds to Women… Continue reading Newsy stuff up top. Extraordinary writer stuff below.
Back to the Invisible: the intersection of truth and the poetic art
Neruda suggests in his poem Arte Poetica from the first volume of Residencia en la tierra published in 1933, that the poetic art, or at least the poet, works and flounders and suffers "Between shadow and space, young girls and garrisons", which calls to my mind, somehow precisely, the situation of 4 young Muslim men from England,… Continue reading Back to the Invisible: the intersection of truth and the poetic art
Business and Pleasure, and a little celebration of writers.
You know how everything you really want to do takes longer than you planned? Consider that the story of a writer. As well the story of this blog writer. There is something in store which has to do with my novella, The Stories of Devil-girl, and soon, I will be letting you know that news.… Continue reading Business and Pleasure, and a little celebration of writers.
The Invisible: Burning cereal and the creative process. And 2 poems out in Poet Lore.
So captured by the possibility of having a communal talk in cyberspace about this mystery of writing, that I am writing this, freewriting this onto the site, and it is, except in cyberspace, invisible. And this is what this posting is about, the invisible. And its power. We know that at the moment we are at… Continue reading The Invisible: Burning cereal and the creative process. And 2 poems out in Poet Lore.
Notes on my Intermedia Arts Mentorship; a few interviews; and the Smashing Albuquerque Cultural Conference that filled this last Labor Day weekend.
September 26, 2007 Dear Friends, I am, as they say, back in town. I will be writing a longer post within a day or so, but I want to, had to, get out some information on some things I have done recently and would love you to look at or listen to. A quick note… Continue reading Notes on my Intermedia Arts Mentorship; a few interviews; and the Smashing Albuquerque Cultural Conference that filled this last Labor Day weekend.
Anya Achtenberg 