Inside Look

By Derek Nikitas, Director, Bluegrass Writers Studio

Want to see a bit more of our Winter Residency 2015 lineup?

Okay, here goes. But I’m saving one or two more for next week…

One of the most profound works of fiction I’ve ever read—right up there with Crime and Punishment, Moby Dick, Madame Bovary—is a hefty tome of semi-historical fantasy called Little, Big by the author JOHN CROWLEY. The book is tough to pin down, a challenge, but also a complete immersion into a world of profound imagination, not unlike Crowley’s Aegypt quartet, a sprawling work that evokes the occult “secret history” of the world.  Or Crowley’s Lord Byron’s Novel, a what-if about the book Byron promised to write that fateful night with the Shelleys, but never did.

By Derek Nikitas, Director, Bluegrass Writers Studio

Time to open some more presents.

Last week, the exciting details about the Bluegrass Writers Studio Winter Residency 2015 began to roll out, with the news that poet Matt Rasmussen would be visiting us on January 9^th, and that his collection of poetry, Black Aperture, will be our common book. Here are three more of our special guests:

The first, JEFF PARKER, is no stranger to many of us in the Bluegrass Writers Studio. As director of the Disquiet International Program in Lisbon, Portugal, Parker has been a close friend of ours since we began our Summer Residency partnership two years ago. But Parker’s intense focus on oiling the summer program gears means he never has an opportunity to showcase his own remarkable creative writing.

By Derek Nikitas, Director, Bluegrass Writers Studio

As the weather turns crisp, it’s again that time of year to think ahead to the holidays. Quality time with family, soul-searching, gifts. And for those of us in the Bluegrass Writers Studio community, there’s that second holiday season to anticipate. A time to gather our creative writing family together from all across the country, to fully engage our craft and its meaning, and to share in the gift of time with our visiting writers.

Our seventh annual Bluegrass Writers Studio Winter Residency.

By Kelley Davidson, Graduate Assistant, Bluegrass Writers Studio

1. “Have you read Eat, Pray, Love?”

2.  “So, you’re a journalist?”

3. “You mean, like David Sedaris?”

4. “You mean, like Susan Orlean?”

5. “Did you have a bad childhood?”

6. “Where do you get your ideas?”

7. “Have you written anything about me?”

8. “Is it anything like Girl, Interrupted?”

9. “Is it anything like In Cold Blood?”

10. “Is it anything like Eat, Pray, Love?”

11. “Is it anything like A Child Called “It”?”

12. “Seriously, have you read Eat, Pray, Love?”

13. “So are you, like, a narcissist or something?”

14. “Do you have depression?”