Lily Renée, Escape Artist by Margaret Oh

And you could win $3,000 and have your essay published in LHJ.” Deadline: December 13, 2011. Whether you choose to write about a life lesson you learned the hard way or a challenge you managed (or perhaps failed) to meet, no topic is off-limits.

From Ladies’ Home Journal: “For the first-ever LHJ Personal Essay Contest, we’re looking for first-person narratives of personal growth - a term you can interpret as broadly as you like.

Residency will take place in September-October 2012 and will offer a stipend of $4,000. citizens, 18 years of age or older, who have had a book published by a traditional publisher in the past three years or have a work under contract. Each year the residency will focus on a specific genre, the first for 2012 being nonfiction in honor of Nance’s field.” Open to U.S. The residency is a two-bedroom apartment in the boyhood home of author and New Yorker cartoonist, James Thurber. An annual residency of four weeks, the Writer-in-Residence program is designed to provide a writer with the gift of time to develop his/her work-in-progress. Nance was a Thurber House writer-in-residence twice, in 19. AP Bureau Chief in the Philippines, Nance wrote The Gentle Tasaday about a primitive tribe in the Philippines as well as Lobo of the Tasaday, a Horn Book Award Honor Book.

Nance Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House is dedicated, by his wife, Sally Crane, to the memory of the late photojournalist and author who was a critically acclaimed Associated Press photographer and journalist. Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities Jewish-American literature, Literary Events And if you go, please report back! I’d love to hear all about it.

The program is free, but it seems as though they’d like reservations. Miller (Comparative Literature, English and French, CUNY Graduate Center), Lara Vapnyar (Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center), and Wayne Koestenbaum (English, CUNY Graduate Center) as they discuss the genesis of their recent books, the rewards and impasses of writing about Jewish subjects, and the tensions between the personal and historical motivations of their work- whether in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary criticism or history.” “Join authors Mikhal Dekel (English, City College), Marianne Hirsch (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia), Nancy K. What promises to be a fascinating program will begin at 4 p.m.: “Writing Jewish Worlds.” If I weren’t traveling to New Jersey on November 18 for an author event of my own, I’d do my very best to get over to the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York.

Lily Renée, Escape Artist by Margaret Oh