Tayari's Blog: People Who Read This Blog Are Going Places

Posted by TayariJones on April 29, 2007 07:29 AM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

this summer!

It's almost May, and people are hearing back from the applications they sent out for summer workshops. I am happy to tell you that the news has been good.

  • LeConte Dill is going to the VONA workshops in San Francisco where she will be in Suheir Hammad's poetry workshop. She's a third-timer, having worked in the past with Z.Z. Packer and Ruth Foreman. She says she picked the VONA workshops because she likes to mix social justice with her creativity.

  • FeLicia Elam will be participating in the Tin House Writer's Workshop in Portland where she will be studying with Colson Whitehead. Also, FeLicia broadened her horizons by learning to write short-shorts, and one has been published already!

  • There must be something lucky with the name Elam because Teri Elam is going to VONA as well! She'll be taking a poetry class with David Mura. If things go the way she's hoping, she'll come home with her first full length poetry manuscript polished and ready to send out.


    Congrats to all of them. Have you heard some good news? Let us know about it. Don't fight the love!

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