Lost In the System/ "Lighting the World," the new novel by Merle Drown, is actually an old novel, one that explores the mysteries of what has become a familiar sort of tragedy.
April 29, 2015 12:45 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., April 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Some novels slide right into the zeitgeist of their times, and some novels have to wait. Count "Lighting the World," the powerful new novel by...
The Latest In a Series of Love Affairs/"Holy Fool," the debut novel by Kenneth Butler, owes a little something to Sinatra, perhaps, but more to the creative--and spiritual--passion of its author.
February 17, 2015 11:55 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- They're like a series of love affairs, the various events that led to the publication last month of "Holy Fool," the novel that had also been...
A Couple of Good Risks: Two acclaimed authors of Young Adult novels--Robin Wasserman and Diane Les Becquets--sign deals on Publisher's Row for adult literary fiction
January 21, 2015 14:34 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 21, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Two award-winning Young Adult novelists—both of them faculty members in Southern New Hampshire University's low-residency MFA in Fiction and...
It's Your Story
December 16, 2014 11:11 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 16, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- So a writer walks into a bar . . . and with that a story begins—as was the case in the most literal sense with Kelly Stone Gamble, the author...
The Secret to Her Artistry
June 12, 2014 13:32 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
Novelist Ann Garvin, author of "The Dog Year," was well along in a very different career. Then she discovered the narrative power of empathy.
MANCHESTER, N.H., June 12, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --...
Top Ten Honors for YA Authors Jo Knowles & Robin Wasserman
May 28, 2014 10:59 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., May 28, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- One of the measures of the growing artistic stature of Young Adult books has been the willingness of literary-minded MFA writing programs to include...
The Tragic Generation Versus the Boomers
May 14, 2014 16:44 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., May 14, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- One of the primary sources for the new memoir by Robert J. Begiebing—"A Berkshire Boyhood: Confessions and Reflections of a Baby Boomer"...
The Empathy Results
April 22, 2014 12:03 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., April 22, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leslie Jamison began by describing pain that didn't exist, that was scripted for her in her role as a medical actor in role-playing sessions that...
God Is In the (Frat) House
April 11, 2014 15:31 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., April 11, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mark Twain's oft-repeated advice for writers—"Write what you know"—is a passkey for some, and an obstacle for others. For novelist and...
It Needed To Be Told: Forthcoming Merle Drown novel recalls the school tragedy that preceded the Challenger disaster
March 27, 2014 13:15 ET
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Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing
MANCHESTER, N.H., March 27, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A forthcoming novel from Merle Drown recalls a tragedy that occurred at Christa McAuliffe's high school the month before the Challenger...