When I first began reading Happy Happy (Livingston Press 2026), I wondered why my friend Corey Mesler didn’t write this book as a memoir, instead of a novel. He explains why it would have been more difficult to write the painful aspects of his struggles as memoir, but his fiction version is so powerful, so […]
January Read of the Month: “Casey’s Last Chance,” by Joseph B. Atkins
January 6, 2016 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by Philip K. Jason “Last chance for what?” the eager reader might ask. To make it to the majors? To score big at anything? In this debut novel, it’s this sorry fellow’s last chance to get out from under the debts incurred over a decade or two of minor league hustling and losing. Not […]
What to Give the Writing Dad? Registration to Nonfiction Workshop
June 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
2011 Memphis Creative Nonfiction Workshop Memphis, Tennessee September 23-25, 2011 The 2011 Memphis Creative Nonfiction Workshop will feature faculty-led manuscript critique sessions, craft talks, a “pitch fest” hosted by a literary agent, panels, and keynote presentations by published authors in the field of creative nonfiction, including creative nonfiction authors, Neil White, Kristen Iversen, […]