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Success: Leanne Ogasawara Wins Calvino Prize
Creative Writing Certificate student Leanne Ogasawara’s story “Bare Bones” won the 2020 Calvino Prize. You can read the story here: http://louisville.edu/miraclemonocle/issue-16/leanne-ogasawara. She says of the experience, “Around Christmas, I learned that my story...
Research Resources for Writers
By Alexis Harmon As writers, we rely on internet search engines more than anyone else. From rare diseases to small town traditions, we all have obscure topics that we type into Google with crossed fingers for accurate, understandable information. But sometimes, Google...
Taking a Page Out of Dickens’ Book
By Noemi VanSlyke Despite being the book-lover that I am, for years I was unable to rouse up the courage to pick up one of those hefty classics by Charles Dickens. I’d heard horror stories—sentences that go on for pages and scenes that never end—but I’d also heard...
Success: Instructor Norman Kolpas’ New Book
Longtime instructor Norman Kolpas recently published a new food book. He says, "I was asked by Reaktion Books, a well-respected book publisher based in London, to write a history of foie gras for their "Edible" series of single subject books on food. While the subject...
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