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{ Monthly Archives } June 2008

Monday Time Wasting 6/30

Its been a while, but here’s the return of links to everything under the sun. Some are old and have nothing to do with DC at all, but just pretend.
The Writer’s Center in Bethesda has a blog now.
Bethanne Patrick over at Author! Author! has chosen Johnathan Miles’ Dear American Airlines as her Book of the [...]

People I Know Week: Daynah Burnett vs. Zeitgeist

Just in case you haven’t been keeping up, this week is People I Know Week. The reason? This blog–which is meant, in part, to call attention to DC-area writer types–was in danger of becoming the Rion Scott/Joe Hall/Matt Klam/Ryan Call show. So just like when the songs on my iPod have become a little too [...]

People I Know Week: What are you doing!?

This week, I’ve decided, is People I Know Week. After last week’s call to my DC-area acquaintances to do more things, I’ve been reminded by some that they actually have been. So I’m devoting this week (or what’s left in it) to my friends’ accomplishments, in hopes of either fostering a community or making myself [...]

People I Know Week: Other Latitudes is Out

In light of last week’s call to people I know to do something newsworthy, I’m very pleased to announce that DC-area poet and person I know Brian Brodeur’s excellent debut collection, “Other Latitudes”, is available for purchase. The collection comes as a result of Brodeur winning the 2007 Akron Poetry Prize. Here is a description:
Attempting [...]

Belated Congrats to Rion Scott, Member of the Group of Five People I Know Who Actually Do Things

I should have probably mentioned this much, much earlier, but DC literary lion and Flambe-er of obsolete cars Rion Scott was named a fiction runner-up in the OneWorld writing competition a few weeks ago, which means he’ll be attending the Pan African Literary Forum in Ghana–which I just discovered  is apparently *not* in Canada–this summer [...]