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FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP begins April 29 | Slots still available
Enliven your fiction with sharp dialogue, authoritative storytelling, compelling details and urgency.
Class meets for six consecutive Thursdays
Taught by Carolyn Flynn, winner of numerous fiction prizes, Spalding MFA candidate and editor of Albuquerque Journal’s SAGE magazine
7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays April 29-June3
Borders at Cottonwood
10420 Coors Bypass NW
$97
Final class features a reading of your work!
featuring discussion about these authors
ANN PATCHETT Bel Canto
JHUMPA LAHIRI Unaccustomed Earth
MARGUERITE DURAS The Lover
MONA SIMPSON Anywhere But Here
ARTHUR PHILLIPS Prague
JOAN DIDION Goodbye to All That
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ 100 Years of Solitude
To sign up, email workshops@carolynflynn.com
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The Tampa Review to publish ‘Pound of Flesh’
“Pound of Flesh,” my creative nonfiction piece about the impoverishment of the life spirit, will be published later this year in The Tampa Review.
This welcome news flash came while I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Denver standing in line to get a latte (which is, I assure you, my only vice) and playing with my iPhone (my other only vice).
“Pound of Flesh” was short-listed in 2009 for the Tom Howard Prose Prize.
The three linked vignettes in the piece, “Streets of Venice,” “Streets of Wall” and “Streets of Lexington,” explore the questions of risk, security and personal capital.
“Pound of Flesh” opens with a scene during the performance of “The Merchant of Venice” at the Royal Shakespeare Co. in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, which I saw during the brief residency of the Spalding University MFA in creative writing program.
But I wrote the piece after mentor Bob Finch made me do it. He had tired of reading chapters from my memoir, “Straight to Heaven,” and told me to try something completely different. And so I did!
Read my blog about England, the “London Calling” series.
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First place in ABQ the mag short story contest
It’s on the stands now — I won first place in the Albuquerque the Magazine short fiction contest with “Blood,” a demented little story about a paranoid schizophrenic character. The full piece appears in the issue. You may order an issue online at abqthemag.com.
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Danahy Fiction Prize | I’m a finalist!
I learned today that I’m a finalist for the Danahy Fiction Prize from Tampa Review, a literary journal housed at the University of Tampa. The story is “Pretend,” the one that I brought to workshop in Barcelona, Spain, during the brief residency of the Spalding University MFA program, working with mentor Robin Lippincott and all of my writer friends in the mentor group. Many, many thanks to all of you!
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MINDFULNESS TAMES THE HEART
My co-author, Anne Ihnen, tells me she keeps hearing from her colleagues in the therapy world that they find “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mindfulness” very useful in their practice. JoAnne Ceccarelli-Egan, a marriage and family therapist in Connecticut is among them. She recently added the book to her Web site under recommended reading.
JoAnne told Anne that she had been practicing mindfulness for 10 years but found the book made certain aspects much clearer. She reports that she has been using mindfulness with clients who have suffered the deepest of pain and finds that it allows them to hold their sadness. When they are able to remain present with their sorrow, they finally feel heard.
Ah, so true. We expend so much energy trying to avert the pain that we don’t realize that when we simply bear witness to it, with compassion, we soften it. Mindfulness tames the wild heart.
JoAnne reports that she has underlined the book and plans to share it as a gift to her yoga teacher, friends and clients.
INNER PEACE FOR TURBULENT TIMES
Mindfulness is the antidote when times are hard and the news is bad. Find out how mindfulness can help you cultivate serenity in the face of uncertainty. “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mindfulness is here, and it’s been getting great reviews. Find out more about mindfulness here.
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REVIEW ON MOM’S FAVORITE STUFF BLOG
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mindfulness - “As a trained psychologist, I’ve learned all about being observant of behavior. I learned how to see things through a clearer pair of eyes. However, when it comes to my own life and my own family, I find that my goggles get a little fuzzy. This book really helped me to “recenter” my thinking and reminded me that I need time to clear my mind and just live in the moment. My children will always be my most important priority but sometimes I find myself worrying about laundry, work, etc rather than just being with them. Practicing some of the mindful activities from this book has really helped me to clear my head in ways I wasn’t sure how to do.” – Mom’s Favorite Stuff
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FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH: THE FIVE TIBETAN RITES
One of my 9-year-old twins is an early riser. Paul is up the minute the sun pulses over the mountain. Grace, on the other hand, likes to sleep until the last possible moment. It takes some doing, but once she wakes up, she’s drenched in beauty, dewy-eyed and radiant. You wouldn’t think by looking at her that she might need the five Tibetan rites, the five yoga movements that some have called the fountain of youth. Click here for full article.
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DOES PRACTICING MINDFULNESS MAKE YOU MORE ATTRACTIVE TO THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Find out in this radio interview about “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mindfulness” with CRN Talk Radio.
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OTHER PLACES YOU’LL FIND CAROLYN FLYNN:
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Recent Additions:
LONDON CALLING, STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN, WHAT'S NEW, WRITING WORKSHOPS — August 16: Welcome to carolynflynn.com
WHAT'S NEW — December 3: The Five Tibetan Rites
FROM MY NOTEBOOK — October 10: Star-Crossed | An excerpt
FROM MY NOTEBOOK — October 10: Self-Help
FROM MY NOTEBOOK — October 10: Improvising
FROM MY NOTEBOOK — October 10: Blood
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