Letters from the Editors

Brenda Miller I’ve just come home from the NonfictioNow conference in beautiful Iowa City, a town known for its writers. This conference is the largest gathering of creative nonfiction writers and teachers in the nation. We get a little giddy as hundreds of us converge at the University of Iowa to not only discuss esoteric …

Brenda Miller Dear Reader: As I write this missive to you in January, the northwest is already hell bent on setting a record for rain this year.   You may have heard: 28 straight days of rain in Seattle, the Nooksack and Skagit rivers flooding, mudslides closing down major thoroughfares.  Students walk across campus shrouded in …

Brenda Miller As of this writing, we’ve just returned from the annual Associate Writing Programs conference, held this year close to home: just over the border in Vancouver, B.C. Over the course of four hectic days, thousands of writers, teachers, editors, publishers, and students swarmed through the Hyatt and the Fairmont hotels in the downtown …

Spring 2005: Issue 55 Brenda Miller “Tread Softly” Last spring I taught a new course on writing in collaboration with the visual arts, or “ekphrastic” writing.  My students and I had a marvelous time as we visited with artists in the classroom and wrote our creative responses to their work.  We tried to ignite what …