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Prose, Poetry & Purpose – The Rise & Fall of Social Cohesion – Christian Albrekt
June 24th, 2019 - Posted in
The Rise & Fall of Social Cohesion by Christian Albrekt This book is about how social cohesion can be established and demolished. The US and UK, where social cohesion declined in the latter part of the 20th century, and Sweden and Denmark, where social cohesion increased in the latter part of the 20th century, will […]
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Mathew Alford
June 21st, 2019 - Posted in
Matthew Alford is a British freelance journalist who specialises in film, media, and Western foreign policy. He is best known for The Writer with No Hands, a documentary that follows his investigation into the disappearance of Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore. Alford’s books include Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy.
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Sarah Collins Honenberger – Encore
June 3rd, 2019 - Posted in
Honenberger’s novel “Catcher, Caught” is a Pen/Faulkner Foundation selection for its Writers-in-Schools program. A fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she appears regularly on literary panels and festivals. Along with “Waltzing Cowboys” (2009) and “White Lies” (2006), all three of her novels were nominees for the Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Her […]
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Jane Valencia – Encore
April 6th, 2019 - Posted in
Jane Valencia is an author/illustrator, harper and storyteller, and nature instructor who loves to adventure with kids of all ages in the wild and wondrous of the outdoors and our own imaginative natures. Her works include a nature-rooted children’s fantasy novel, a kids herbal comic, a free quarterly ezine, several harp recordings, and numerous blog […]
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Lawrence Matsuda
March 23rd, 2019 - Posted in
Lawrence Matsuda was born in the Minidoka, Idaho Concentration Camp during World War II. He and his family were among the approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese held without due process for approximately three years or more. Matsuda has a Ph.D. in education from the University of Washington. His book of poetry, A Cold Wind […]
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Julian Hoffman
March 21st, 2019 - Posted in
Julian Hoffman was born in England and grew up in Canada. In 2000, he moved with his wife, Julia, to live beside the Prespa Lakes in northern Greece. Having worked as organic market-gardeners for some years, they now earn a living in the mountains, monitoring sensitive upland bird species where wind parks have been built […]
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Debra Busman
March 2nd, 2019 - Posted in
Debra Busman is a fiction/creative non-fiction writer and co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at California State University Monterey Bay. Co-editor of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, Busman’s work has been published in Combined Destinies: Whites Share Grief About Racism, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, The LA Review, and more. Her […]
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Sam Carp
January 19th, 2019 - Posted in
Sam Carp graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 2017 with two degrees in Environmental Policy and Anthropology. In the summer of 2017 he moved to Vashon to become a farm intern on GreenMan farm. It was during this time that Sam took on a job with the Vashon Food Bank as an Americorps VISTA and Harvest […]
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Betsy Bell
January 5th, 2019 - Posted in
Betsy Bell, mother, grandmother, businesswoman, is a longtime justice activist. Publications include poems in various chapbooks and magazines; a personal essay in The Oklahoma Review, a non-fiction piece, Sex, Death and Line Dancing, in, and an opinion piece on senior living in the Seattle Times. Born in New York City in 1937, she has witnessed firsthand the social upheaval created […]
Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Cathy Yardley
January 5th, 2019 - Posted in
Since my first paid gig as a writer in 1999, I’ve written fun love stories. Even when I tried to write angsty, I couldn’t keep the humor out — it’s hard-wired. Now I roll with it. I’ve been letting my geek flag fly here for a while. Some of my favorite authors are Penny Reid, […]