This newly annual event is a play off the monthly There Will Be Words prose reading series, and is being held in honor of NCAA college basketball’s March Madness.
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There Will Be Madness – A Flash Fiction Blood Bath going down at Urban ReThink
Author Azar Nafisi featured in Rollins College’s Winter With the Writers
Nafisi, who finally left Iran in the mid-1990s, wrote about this experience and the impact this exercise had on the lives of these oppressed women in her bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which spent 117 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and earned Nafisi a reputation as...
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Burrow Press presents Love Poems With Susan Lilley workshop
Do yourself a favor and let poet Susan Lilley help re-work your darling sonnets in this Burrow Press Writes creative writing workshop, so that your lines might be of the, shall we say, more romantically sound variety.
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OMA hosts Art, Literature and a Sense of Place author roundtable
The Orlando Museum of Art has assembled a knockout group of writers, artists and critics to talk about … well, we’re not sure what, exactly, and they haven’t been too forthcoming, but we’d happily listen to these folks discuss just about anything.
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Selection Reminder: Florida Writers’ Conference!
Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 16-18 – Florida Writers’ Conference various times through Feb. 18 University of Central Florida $15-$150 Christian Lander of snarkblog Stuff White People Like once wrote, “It’s no secret: White people want to be writers. … Every single white person harbors this dream.” (Lander, who is white, gained a multi-book publishing deal off...
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Selection Reminder: Carl Hiaasen at Rollins College!
Thursday, Feb. 2 – Winter With the Writers: Carl Hiaasen Kicking off Rollins’ well-established Winter With the Writers literary series is an evening with Carl Hiaasen, Florida’s homegrown maestro of outrage. Sometimes he mines a vein of restrained sarcasm, as in his columns for the Miami Herald, which simmer with a slow boil of...
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Don’t Panic: Why Glee’s rough premiere doesn’t matter
Pt. 1 of 3. Check out parts 2 and 3, and Gawker’s mention here! I know, I know. We’ve heard from everyone and their momma that Glee‘s mega-hyped season-two premiere Tuesday night didn’t quite live up to everyone’s Gleespectations. Despite enormous ratings, critics deemed it mostly meh: “Self-indulgent,” says the Daily News. “Neither awful...
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