Tag: writing
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Seattle, Day 2: Open Books, Pike Place Market, Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum, and The Bureau of Fearless Ideas
(August 10, 2021) My second day in Seattle, I focused on my business mission for the trip: exploring the bookish side of the city for inspiration on what I could accomplish with Longleaf Press, a literary nonprofit I had acquired in the spring. The press was founded in the late ’90’s by my undergraduate mentors,…
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Choo-Choo!
It’s been several years since I’ve kept up with my website in any kind of meaningful way, but since so much has changed for me in the last year–and since I’m about to embark on yet another epic train trip (this time to try and decide upon a new place to call home)–I thought this…
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Michael S. Begnal’s Future Blues
One of the pleasures of the writing life is getting to know the other people who gravitate toward that sphere. Writers are fun. They spend prolonged periods holed up with their creations, and then (with the exception of your Dickinsons and Salingers) they emerge from their caves into the bigger world, usually feeling somewhere between…
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Here is a blog …
Here is a blog post I wrote earlier this month but didn’t get to post until now. There’s no wireless here at the Anderson Center. I have been neglecting this blog and my writing in general for several months now, but today, I am in the top of an old water tower that has been…
Shannon Camlin Ward 