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News and Upcoming Events
March 4, 2010
An essay, which I call "East to the West," appears in the next issue of High Country News, possibly under a different title.
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The postmark deadline for the 2011 and 2012 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residencies is March first of this year. For residency description and application instructions see http://www.johndaniel-author.net/mdb-res.php. For photos of the site see http://www.writersconf.org/memdir/members/PNW00019.php.
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I've been dividing my time between Winter Creek and the little holing-up cottage my wife and I have on a ranch in southcentral Oregon, about thirty-five miles east of Klamath Falls. Poems are occurring to me again, which makes me happy. There are several I'm working on. I'm also writing my way into a novel, a realistic yarn set in the contemporary Northwest. So far it's been fun, and slow. I imagine I'll be at least a couple more years in writing it.
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The Far Corner paperback edition will be released by Counterpoint in April 2010. Randi Bjornstad's review of the book, "The many sides of living in Oregon," appeared in the Sunday, April 5, 2009 issue of the Eugene Register-Guard. A longer piece by Jeff Baker was published in the Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Oregonian.
One of the essays from the book, "The Mother of Beauty," has been published in the e-magazine Open Spaces at www.open-spaces.com/article-v10n3-jdaniel.php. Another, "Wavewash," appears in the current issue of ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment).
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My essay, "East to the West," will appear in an anthology of contemporary writers thinking out loud about writing and the West. Titled In the Manner of the Country: Living and Writing the American West, the book will be published in the fall of 2011 by the University of Texas Press. The title phrase comes from Mary Austin in The Land of Little Rain: "The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion."
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My yearlong memoir course, offered through Fishtrap, has passed the halfway point. Our group of seven (plus me) convened our winter session at the Northrup Station hotel in Portland, where we had good speaks and good times. Participants generally agreed that writing a book-length memoir is hard, particularly under the lash of a humorless and implacable tyrant of an instructor. We now continue to work by correspondence until this summer's Fishtrap Conference and Gathering at Wallowa Lake.
The second offering of Jane Vandenburgh's yearlong novel course will begin at that same conference and is now accepting applications. Go to www.fishtrap.org for information.
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Sandy Tilcock, proprietor of lone goose press in Eugene, has published a broadside of my poem, "Dependence Day," from All Things Touched by Wind. Sandy's fine letterpress and bookbinding work is known and celebrated regionally and nationally. She also has a few copies left of the broadside she made a few years ago of the poem I was commissioned to write as an interior frieze in the expanded Fern Ridge Library in Veneta. The poem, untitled, begins, "Read then, if you will..." For information on these broadsides and other works by Sandy Tilcock go to www.lonegoosepress.com or email info@lonegoosepress.com.
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The application period for the 2011 and 2012 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residencies will run from December 1, 2009 to March 1, 2010. Updated residency description and application instructions are available on the "odds & ends" page of this website. The 2009 resident was nonfiction writer Nick Neely, presently working an internship at High Country News. Nick is also founder and editor of the literary birding journal LBJ. (The reference is not to a former president of the United States but to "little brown job," a category of birds created for inobservant birders such as me.)
Fiction writer Erin Brown, presently of Missoula, Montana, will be our resident in 2010.
The resident stipend of $5,000 annually has been secured for the next several years by generous support from a foundation and several individuals. Many thanks to all.
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You can reach me, as always, at johndaniel48@yahoo.com.
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