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Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent and imagination?” In the latest PLU podcast, we pose these questions and others to a pair of RWW faculty members and acclaimed creative writers, Rick

discusses her book on the fostering and adoption of indigenous children in the postwar world for the 41st Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture. 7 p.m., Anderson University Center–Regency Room. MARCH Monday, March 2: Women, Leadership and Vocation: Vulnerability. Participants in this workshop will watch Brené Brown’s TED talk “The Power of Vulnerability” and listen to a panel of PLU women share their experiences feeling (and embracing) vulnerability in order to further their personal and

Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. His work appears in GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Saveur, and several anthologies. For the past decade, Goodman has directed the undergraduate and graduate creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. During that time he has organized and staged three major literary festivals: Diversity in African American Poetry; Translating Cultures: Latin American and Latina/o Writers Festival; and Miami

women since it meant they were innocent and subordinate, she instead uses this quality against prescribed gender roles. The choice to cast Mary McKenna-Bruce intentionally aligns the character with an actress who, until recently, was a child star in the popular British children’s show Tracy Beaker Returns (2010-2012) and its spinoff The Dumping Ground (2013-). Don’t be fooled into thinking Disney Channel would air these alongside Raven’s Home (2017-) and reruns of Hannah Montana (2006-2011

editor at the company for four years. “They made a position for me to come back,” she said. “It worked out perfectly.” Then in 2008, two events caught her attention. First was a regional writing contest that would win her a free walk-on role in an upcoming Star Wars movie, and second was National Novel Writing Month, which takes place every November. Writers are encouraged to write 50,000 words during the month, so Meyer figured “why not,” pulled out her idea for Cinder and began churning out the

July 27, 2011 Anthony Chan Bounleurt – spinning on his head. (Photo by John Froschauer) There’s a faith club for that By Barbara Clements It could be any evening on the ground floor of the University Center: A group of young men and women – about 25 of them – drift into the lounge area, greeting each other. Some chat; others open their laptops – all as if they are waiting for something. Then, someone cranks up the hip-hop, and its steady thrum echoes through the building. They start stretching

Kristina Walker ’02 on running for office, loving Tacoma, and city council goals Posted by: Zach Powers / January 8, 2020 Image: Kristina Walker ’02 is sworn in at Tacoma City Council by her husband, Alex Walker ’03, on Tuesday, Jan. 7. (Photo courtesy the City of Tacoma) January 8, 2020 By Lisa PattersonGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 8, 2020) — At about this time last January, Kristina Walker ’02 got The New York Times’ special insert that featured all 126 women

. One reason I think it is so important for teachers to be scholars is that writing and having others critique one’s work is what we ask students to do. In a writing class, where we emphasize the process of writing as one that entails feedback and revision, it is especially important to introduce students to the fact that this is true for writers at all stages of their careers. In other writing classes, I have brought in reviews of journal articles, and once the pet book was complete and I had

methodologies. The contemporary agenda in foreign language teaching has been shaped significantly by historical phenomena such as World War II, shifting business practices and other economic factors, and the political need for intelligence and military data collection. In its broadest form, sexism is inseparable from these historical developments; in practice the issue also manifests itself in explicit and systematic ways. Tamara Williams, Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies and Director of the Wang

January 3, 2013 Montana native gets back to his roots in a new anthology on the West By JuliAnne Rose ’13 Inspired by the history of the West, Russell Rowland ’81 has made a career exploring Western identity. Partnered with long-time friend, Lynn Stegner, Rowland produced a new anthology that delves into the evolution of the Western identity. “It was an issue that I was really excited to explore,” Rowland said. “I was really surprised how many well known writers were willing to contribute