SPECIAL ISSUE AND CONTEST: SOUTHERN SIN Deadline: July 31, 2012 From: http://www.creativenonfiction.org/ Creative Nonfiction and the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference & Workshop are looking for essays that capture the South in all its steamy sinfulness–whether you’re skipping church to watch football, coveting your neighbor’s Real Housewife of Atlanta, or just drinking an unholy amount of sweet…
Month: May 2012
THE PAZ PRIZE FOR POETRY
Para información en español, haga click aquí. In celebration of 10 successful years of carrying out its mission of promoting reading, writing and theatre, the Center @ Miami Dade College partnered with The National Poetry Series to establish The Paz Prize for Poetry. This annual award—named in the spirit of the late Nobel Prize-winning…
Label Me Latina/o
CALL FOR SCHOLARLY ESSAYS AND CREATIVE WORKS FOR Label Me Latina/o Label Me Latina/o (www.labelmelatinao.com) is an online, refereed international e-journal that focuses on Latino Literary Production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The journal invites scholarly essays focusing on these writers for its biannual publication. Label Me Latina/o also publishes creative literary pieces whose…
Getting a Taste of Little Italy in Taos
Photo: Tina Larkin The concept Jennifer DeBow, Mondo Italiano partner, knew exactly what she wanted to do when she conceived of the restaurant—she longed to capture the flavor of the East Coast Italian American food that she had enjoyed during her childhood inManhattan. “I put together the menu based on the dishes I used to…
Creating art with our bodies –contemporary dance with CJ Bernal
Photo: Tina Larkin “To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak,” says a Hopi Indian proverb. If the saying is true, there was a meeting of happy hearts on Saturday March 17th at Taos Academy of Dance. In CJ Bernal’s contemporary dance class, students and instructor slid around the wood floor with rhythmic…
