Ketambe, Kutacane, and Gunung Leseur National Park, Aceh Tenggara, Sumatra, Indonesia. September 15-20, 2011. It’s taken me a while to write about this. I write enough fiction featuring people coming to terms with their own lapses in sanity to recognize that it’s a process of interest to me. I also spent enough time on independent [...]
All posts for the month December, 2011
Ketambe/Melancholia
Posted by melaniejoya on December 28, 2011
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/ketambemelancholia/
Winter solstice reading at BookWoman, Dec. 18 at 4pm
This Sunday, December 18, I’ll be reading at BookWoman’s Winter Solstice Celebration + Open House. The readings begin at 4 and will be followed by music at 6:30. If you’re in Austin, please stop by! BookWoman has great events, and we should all adore our local indie feminist bookstore. Our afternoon will begin at 4pm [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on December 14, 2011
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/winter-solstice-reading-at-bookwoman-dec-18-at-4pm/
My writer brain on Wyoming, pt. 1 of 3
I recently spent two weeks participating in a pilot program for a new residency for writers, visual artists, and musicians/composers in south-central Wyoming through Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. The thing I have in common with Dick Cheney is an everlasting love for Wyoming and its landscapes, so things were good there. I watched the winter [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on December 14, 2011
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/my-writer-brain-on-wyoming-pt-1-of-2/
My novella, City in the River, City in the Forest, available from Hag's Head Press
Incident at Love Canal, with Christine Shea!
