I have a new article in the Winter issue of Notre Dame Magazine, which is now available. Click here to see my piece about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s return to Notre Dame before disbanding. Here’s a brief excerpt:
Wrapped in a skin-tight, light blue costume, the young dancer contorts his body in a [...]
I’m happy to announce that I took First Place in the Feature Story category in the 2011 Michigan Press Association Better Newspaper Contest for my profile on author Michael Collins and his work with other young writers at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Mich., which appeared in The Herald-Palladium.
Members of the Colorado Press Association judged [...]
Can you produce a masterwork of fiction in a mere 72 hours? The 3-Day Novel Contest is your chance to find out. The contest has run every Labor Day Weekend since 1977 and now attracts writers from all over the world.
The 34th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest takes place Sept. 3-5 this year. [...]
I have two new articles in the Summer issue of Notre Dame Magazine, which is now on newsstands. Click here to see my piece about the Browning Cinema, one of a handful of THX-certified movie houses on college campuses, and how cinema manager Ted Barron sees the Browning’s role as both an education and entertainment [...]
The Winter issue of Notre Dame Magazine is out. Click here to see my piece about Global Issues and the United Nations, a class that uses Notre Dame’s portable Polycom video conferencing system to link students to U.N. members where they can get a better understanding of world matters from hunger and international migration to [...]
I’ve sold another short article to The Writer. Look in the November issue of the magazine for my piece on The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, which will celebrate the centennial birthday of the acclaimed playwright as well as its own 25th anniversary March 23-27, 2011.
Williams, who won Pulitzer Prizes for A Streetcar Named Desire [...]
My short piece on the new Elmore Leonard Literary Arts and Film Festival appears in the Take Note section of the September issue of The Writer, one of my favorite national writing magazines.
You can find the link to the issue here.
The Summer issue of Notre Dame Magazine is out today. Click here to see my story about the growing push for scholarly, undergraduate achievement. Here’s an excerpt:
While the concept of undergraduate research has been around for decades, a national trend has intensified in recent years that encourages more undergraduates to take on complex [...]
I’m pleased to report that I’ve sold a short piece on the new Elmore Leonard Literary Arts and Film Festival to The Writer, one of my favorite national writing magazines.
I’m told the piece will appear in the Take Note section of the September issue. It’s my first piece for the this particular title - I’m [...]
I’m in the process of posting some of my best work from the first half of this year and the bulk of 2009. If you glance at the portfolio section you will now find my story on author Michael Collins titled “Passion & Purpose,” the story about cremated human remains that have never been picked [...]