Superstition Review
December 13, 2011
I have an essay in the new issue of Superstition Review (Issue 8, Fall 2011): “Family Portrait: An Essay in Third Person.” While you’re there, check out new work from Lee Martin, Patrick Madden, Louise DeSalvo and others!
A brand-new nonfiction conference! (& other news. . .)
December 13, 2011
I’ll be teaming up with Sonya Huber, Kate Hopper, and Sarah Wells for a mother-writing panel at next May’s inaugural River Teeth conference (May 18-20). If you want to hear Sonya, Kate, and me in Minneapolis at last October’s Mother Words reading, check out our recently posted show on the Mom Enough site.
AWP Chicago 2012 News
December 13, 2011
I’m looking forward to seeing many of you in Chicago next March at the AWP Conference! I’ll be around, but you can definitely find me in the following locations at the following times for the following events with some other familiar characters:
Friday, March 2, 2012, 10:30 am @ AWP Chicago: “The Rooted Narrator: Negotiating Time and Narrative Distance in Nonfiction” with Sonya Huber, Debra Gwartney, Dan Raeburn, Bonnie J. Rough (now teaching at Ashland!), Grand Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, 4th Floor
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 3:00 pm @ AWP Chicago: “Fifth Year Anniversary Reading: Ashland University MFA Creative Nonfiction Faculty with Sonya Huber, Robert Root, Steven Harvey, and Kathryn Winograd,” Room Wiliford A, Hilton Hotel 3rd Floor
Mother Words in Minneapolis: Oct. 13th
September 25, 2011
The Fifth Annual Annual Mother Words™ Reading
On Thursday, October 13, 2011, at 7 p.m. I’ll be reading with authors (and dear, talented, brilliant friends) Kate Hopper and Sonya Huber at the Open Book, Minneapolis
Darkroom is now in paperback!
September 25, 2011
After eight years in print, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (winner of the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction) has been released in paperback. Now available at the low, low price of just $19.95, and still sporting all those eye-catching photos, this edition’s as good as the first, but softer, more pliable, more affordable for those of you who have always wanted to teach it in your writing classes.
Vouched Book Presents: Oct. 4th, 2011
September 25, 2011
Vouched Book Presents
On Tuesday, October 4th at 7:00 p.m. at the Big Car Gallery (1043 Virginia Avenue, #213) in Indianapolis, I’m going to be reading with writers Patricia Henley, Michael Martone, and Mark Neely. Our host will be none other than Chris Newgent of Vouched Books fame.
For more information, check out Vouched Book’s super-cool, book-loving, author-friendly, snazzy site.
River Teeth Reading
Tuesday, January 26th at 7:30 p.m. in the Letterman Building 125 on the Ball State University campus.
Please join Professors Jill Christman & Mark Massé (from the Departments of English & Journalism) to celebrate their recent work in River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative
Mark Massé’s literary journalistic account of social activism, Inspired to Serve: Today’s Faith Activists, was published in 2004 by Indiana U. Press. His first novel, Delamore’s Dreams, was published in 2005 by Booklocker.com. Currently, he is working on a new book on trauma journalism. Professor Massé directs the Journalism Writing Center in the Department of Journalism, and in 2006, he established a master’s degree program emphasis in literary journalism.
Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the U. Georgia Press in 2002. Three recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations. Professor Christman teaches creative nonfiction writing at Ball State and in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program.
The 2009-2010 Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by Creative Writing in the Department of English at Ball State University.
For more information, contact Jill Christman (jcchristman@bsu.edu). This event is free & open to the public.
