Write At Your Own Risk

I just returned from my third VCFA residency, where I chilled (quite literally) in negative degree Vermont weather. Of course the true joy of VCFA residency is spending two weeks drinking up the sweet deliciousness of my brilliant VCFA friends, picking the brains of the esteemed faculty, listening to craft-boggling lectures, and overall being surrounded [...]

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National Book Award Nominations 2011

The National Book Award Nominations were just posted and I’m super excited to congratulate VCFA faculty member Franny Billingsley for her nomination of Chime. I had the privileged of having my writing workshopped by Franny at the winter VCFA residency and she was brilliant and insightful! Not to mention the fabulousness of Chime itself (which [...]

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The VCFA Sticky Toffy Pudding Take-Away

I’ve made it back from my second VCFA residency! I’m exhausted, inspired, in love with my class, and ready to dig in to a new semester of writing. Overflowing with insight and inspiration, I’m hoping the acclimation process (back to “normal” life) is slow and tender. In the meantime, I thought I’d share a few [...]

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Amazing VCFA Blog Series!

As many of you know I’ve been attending the Vermont College of Fine art this year and getting my MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. I will once again be Blog-MIA for two weeks while I am at my VCFA residency in July. But never fear because VCFA has created a whole summer’s [...]

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Inadequate

The following is a little poem I didn’t know I was writing. It’s a list poem, that will illustrate just how smart and brilliant everyone at VCFA is. And maybe… I’ll be this smart someday too… INADEQUATE (a poem) A list of words people at VCFA used that I do not know: Quicksotic Agregeous Modified [...]

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I’ve Survived My First VCFA Residency!

I have survived my first residency at the Vermont College of Fine Art (VCFA)! It was ten days of snow, lectures, workshops, intense conversations, laughter, new friends and sleep deprivation. It was exhausting and transformational!  It’s hard to explain just how much my attitude toward writing has shifted in such a short amount of time. [...]

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