Items Tagged with "River Teeth"
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River Teeth 13.1 Now Available in Print and Online
River Teeth, Volume 13, Number 1 has arrived in our offices, is labeled, and will be mailed today! If you aren’t a subscriber yet, what are you waiting for -- subscribe already!Kindle users can download Volume 13, Number 1 now! If you download River Teeth to your Kindle device, please give us
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Annual Conference: 8,000 Writers Expected
With the 2012 AWP Conference happening in just a few days, here is Rebecca McClanahan's "Annual Conference: 8,000 Writers Expected" from River Teeth 13.2.Visualization by Donald Devet.
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Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Deadline Change
In an effort to select a winner early enough for University of Nebraska Press to work more strategically with our book prize winners, the editors at River Teeth have moved back our annual book contest deadline to November 1, 2012. You have a little over five months to perfect that 150-400 page
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Do Not Read Out Loud
Laurie Uttich teamed up with Sean Ironman to create this video of "Do Not Read Out Loud," from River Teeth 14.1.
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Mark Masse Presented with Award for Journalism
On January 18 at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, Ball State University literary journalism professor Mark Massé (www.markmasse.com) was presented with the American Psychoanalytic Association's (APsaA) 2012 Award for Excellence in Journalism. The award noted his “commitment to coveri
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Andre Dubus III \"Writing and Publishing a Memoir\" Wins a Pushcart
Congratulations to Andre Dubus III, whose piece, "Writing and Publishing a Memoir," published in River Teeth Volume 14, Number 1, has won a Pushcart Prize and will be reprinted in Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses.Order Volume 14.1Subscribe to River TeethAndre Dubus III is the author
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2014 Conference Speakers Announced
We're delighted to announce our featured speakers for the 2014 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference: Philip Gerard and Brenda Miller!In addition to these talented writers, River Teeth welcomes a dozen others for the next conference: Jill Christman, Bob Cowser, Jr., Valerie Due, Hope Edelman, Jill Gerar
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The Art of Mulling: Steven Harvey and Kate Hopper
Over the next couple of months, we'll feature a presentation from the 2013 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference.In this presentation, Steven Harvey and Kate Hopper discuss "The Art of Mulling."Listen to the audio file here.
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The Stealth Memoir: Writing Your Life Between the Lines
In this presentation from the 2013 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference, Michelle Herman discusses "The Stealth Memoir: Writing Your Life Between the Lines," a conversation about combining your personal narrative with subject matter beyond your immediate life story.Listen to the audio file here.
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28 Days of Beautiful Things
The wonder of the winter snow drifting and blowing wears down to threadbare chill, bitter and dark: when will spring be here, we groan, but there’s still February, still another month (at least) of bundling and shoveling and crumpled Kleenexes in pockets. What can stir the spirit along wi
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RTNC 2014 Schedule of Events
The River Teeth Nonfiction Conference Schedule of Events 2014 is now available, featuring the following panel sessions:"Going Long: Challenges and Opportunities of Moving from the Essay to the Memoir"with Jill Christman, Steven Harvey, and Sonya Huber"The Telling Part: Reflection in Memoir" wit
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Beet
I sliced a beet in half and discovered that it has rings. Rings like you would find on a tree stump to mark its age--one ring, one year.But beets are young, have only known one spring, one summer, one early fall, perhaps also one winter passed inside in a dark, dry box. So what could each ring repre
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Morning
When my infant daughter wakes at two in the morning and her father cannot coax her back to sleep, she and I curl up on the mattress in the guest room below the big window, and I drift off with her tiny fingers gripping my thumb.At dawn she sits up and stares out at the world so long and so hard that
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Hymn
This morning at church I plunked out the four parts of an old hymn while above my chords the congregation’s voices took flight. And I thought of geese bursting up together from the edge of a pond where they had been napping and squabbling and pecking for fish.Sometimes it is hard for me to bel
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Dust
I was struck today by a couple of things--the perfume of hyacinths, a woman with white hair that hung down to the backs of her knees--but I have finally settled on dust.I had planned to dust today--had written it down on my list of things to do--but the baby was sick and in need of holding, and I wr
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