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Riehlife Report Card Year One
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A Land Full of Stories: A Conference & Celebration of Writing about Place and Personal History (June 7 – 9, 2007), Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
The Story Circle Network, in cooperation with the Alkek Library’s Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University, is planning a weekend writing conference to mark the publication of What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest—Story Circle Network’s new anthology of writings by women celebrating their experiences in the landscapes of the Southwest. The…
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Meet Guest Bloggers Janet Muirhead Hill and Nancy Connally who visit Riehlife while Janet travels to New Mexico to read at the Sunflower Poetry Workshop and Poets & Writers Picnic
While I’m away in New Mexico, I’m leaving you in the capable hands of two sister members of Women Writiing the West. For the first four days, enjoy the wisdom of Guest Blogger Janet Muirhead Hill, author of the Miranda and Starlight series of six books and Danny’s Dragon, a story of wartime loss. As…
Naomi Shihab Nye’s gift for connection & a shared world at Missouri Writers Guild Conference, Columbia, Missouri
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