Christina had the Young Adults take an adventure in creative writing. First they went through some creativity exercises to loosen up the mind, then they wrote a story!

www.nanowrimo.org - writing a 50 000 word novel in 30 days -

In 2008, I left my former life and one of the first things I did was nanowrimo. I wrote with a frenzy and obsession in a way similar to the way I had lived my life until then. It was a novel of ordinary office workers who had super powers in an alternate universe and saved the land of Zetoec from ultimate destruction but a price was paid. That year I wrote more on a blog about writing than I did in the novel. Personally it was a year of truly understanding my obsessions.

In 2009, I wrote "Inside Her Drawers" ... about a woman in her later years that is afraid of letting go of "her treasures" for she believes that it is only those treasures that keep her alive. Naturally, those treasures are lost at a time of significant change and the old woman dies. During nano last year, rather than do a blog, I posted a pic a day on Flickr as inspiration to keep writing and in doing so learned to trust the process. It is through that habit, I reconnected with the world in a way I did not imagine possible, and through that process of trust at a broader level I am where I am today.

Today in 2010, I will start nano for the third time. And for many reasons, today is also a day of new beginnings. As with the other years, I don;t have a specific storyline in mind - it will evolve ... I have a vague concept and I know the process will take care of its own. This year I want to honour the child, and especially the child within ... this year (hopefully) will be a children's story. I do know that there is a camel in this story.

.. and there is no better way than to start a story and a new beginning than with a blank sheet ... happy nanowrimo-ing and happy futures :)

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Kayaking the canals of Utrecht.

People who keep journals have life twice. --Jessamyn West

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Robert Gibbons Creative Writing class visits Society of Illustrators on 09_28_2012.

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Dorothy Chan

The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading and book signing by two of its stellar alumni: Dorothy Chan (MFA 2015) and Dana Diehl (MFA 2015).

About the Authors

Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com

Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and TV Girls (New Delta Review, 2018). Her collaborative short story collection, The Classroom, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in early 2019. She earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Signal Fire, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Tucson.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018

ASU Tempe campus

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Author and Knox College graduate Will Boast reads from his own works and signs books, at a meeting of the Caxton Club, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Knox's program in Creative Writing. More info: www.knox.edu/news/knox-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-cre...

That summer night we went down by the sea

To watch the fireworks, and I was then so small…

Perching on father’s shoulders I would see

The lights exploding. In my arms, my doll.

Walking, I raised my eyes to watch the faces

The lamppost light painted their skins in greens.

I felt so scared I tripped on my paces:

My parents turned into spine-chilling beings.

I could not ask: I was afraid of talking.

The neon lights were blazing their sick colour.

I watched my feet, bare in the sandals, walking,

My dolly’s face, my hands, and they discoloured.

I can’t remember fireworks, the nightmare dulled the show

That night I had for parents two persons I didn’t know.

(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)

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Class of 2014.

A gift for the artist/writer in your family. These are little journals with a prompt on each page, suitable for creative writing or sketching.

Plenty of options available: original print on hard covers (raw board with fabric spine and fabric corner protection, ) - these are good for those who want to sketch or write on the go; bright coloured soft covers available with original print, digitally remastered print in medium or small.

I lack the time to list them in my shop right now, but you are welcome to contact me directly if you are interested. -- Hope you'll like them. And the prompts of course.

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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English hosts alumni Allegra Hyde (MFA 2015) and H. Lee Barnes (MFA 1992) for a reading from their work.

Allegra Hyde is the author of the 2016 John Simmons Short Fiction Award winning collection “Of this New World.”

H. Lee Barnes is the author of numerous books including “Dummy Up and Deal,” “When We Walked Above the Clouds,” and “Minimal Damage.”

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Mike Cahill, a visiting screenwriter, meets with creative writing student David Harrison to review his script. Photo by: Philip Channing

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The Indian was the double-tongued fiend

While Technicolor cowboy was our man.

We did not know the enemy, by then,

Trustful we watched the movie as it began.

We lived in black and white, as children do

“The sheriff will shot dead the bad outlaw”.

The hero, fair and strong, for what we knew

Would have the farmer’s daughter, and the squaw.

Then we knew better, but it was too late.

We found new myths and pictures, and new heroes

Revealing to ourselves what desecrated

The story of a nation smashed to zero.

Our fathers taught us legends, allowing us to see

Only what suit the story, and hiding the enemy.

(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)

In praise of Native Americans

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Port town in the far north of Israel; fantastic historical sites from the Crusader and Ottoman times

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I miss you more than I can say, you both,

A split image that is for me not cracked:

The one who loved me, the one that loves me not.

My silence does not mean that I forgot;

I am the mirror: you are still intact.

I miss you more than I can say, you both.

I know you are around, at my earshot

But I don’t know the song that could attract

The one who loved me, the one that loves me not.

Nobody told me how, nobody thought

To explain what it feels like being sidetracked.

I miss you more than I can say, you both.

And now I draw my rope, untying each knot

Searching and probing for the one that lacked:

The one who loved me, the one that loves me not.

I play it as it comes, I have no plot

And you may stay away or interact.

I miss you more than I can say, you both:

The one who loved me, the one that loves me not.

(Villanelle by SiRiChandra)

Robert Gibbons Creative Writing class visits Society of Illustrators on 09_28_2012.

Dorothy Chan

The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading and book signing by two of its stellar alumni: Dorothy Chan (MFA 2015) and Dana Diehl (MFA 2015).

About the Authors

Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com

Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and TV Girls (New Delta Review, 2018). Her collaborative short story collection, The Classroom, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in early 2019. She earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Signal Fire, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Tucson.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018

ASU Tempe campus

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The College of Liberal Arts at Temple University proudly announces a handful of newly renovated “smart” classrooms for the Fall 2012 semester. These rooms, in addition to being refurbished with fresh carpeting, lighting, blinds, and oversized white boards, have been upgraded with a number of technological advances. Students and faculty assigned to the new classrooms will notice new podiums, projectors, screens and control systems.

www.cla.temple.edu/2012/09/newly-renovated-smart-classroo...

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Students from the Converse College MFA in Creative Writing Low Residency Program

Jane Hamilton, visiting professor in the English department, taught a J-Term class on creative writing during the 2012-20-13 school year. January 24th, 2013. Photo by Aaron Lurth

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Host, professor Tara Ison

The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading and book signing by two of its stellar alumni: Dorothy Chan (MFA 2015) and Dana Diehl (MFA 2015).

About the Authors

Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com

Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and TV Girls (New Delta Review, 2018). Her collaborative short story collection, The Classroom, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in early 2019. She earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Signal Fire, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Tucson.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018

ASU Tempe campus

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This event was presented with the support of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.