by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 28, 2010 | journeys, mfa |
Yesterday I mailed my fourth packet to my adviser. Every four weeks I complete one. That’s how most low-residency MFA programs work. Packets. Plus the twice-a-year residencies. I wrote a post in January about my first residency at the Vermont College of Fine...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 22, 2010 | journeys |
One of the great things about writing workshops is meeting other writers. At Sirenland this year, I met four other writers with blogs, which makes them easy to introduce to you. Meet Aaryn, Sariah, Jude, and Renee: Aaryn Belfer at thematically fickle Sariah...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 30, 2010 | journeys, truth |
Because I’m always writing about how much I LOVE traveling, full disclosure compels me to tell the story of my trip home from Sirenland. I am only just now able to speak of this–now that the story has come to an end and I did in fact make it home. As a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 28, 2010 | journeys, place, shapes |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 14, 2010 | journeys, Pam Houston, place, provincetown |
In 2006, I went to Provincetown for the first time to take a workshop with Pam Houston at the Fine Arts Work Center. Each morning a twenty-minute walk to class took me parallel with the ocean on a cobblestone sidewalk, past art gallery after art gallery and shop...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 16, 2010 | journeys, place |
Silver Moon is the name of the 19-foot Airstream Bambi trailer where I’m staying at a writing/spa retreat in the hills above Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ten Thousand Waves is the name of this Japanese-style spa where they leave a chocolate fortune-telling Buddha on...
