Online conference for art, design, magic, and religion. October 15 – 17, 2026 The Department of Art + Art History and The Center for the Study of Ideas and Practices at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in co-sponsorship with The Center for Advanced Studies – Erlangen, The University of Exeter’s Centre for Magic and Esotericism, Societas Magica, and RENSEP, are pleased to collaboratively host Creative…
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Write 4 a Day: 23 Mar 2025
Keep an eye open for the new FREE online course inspired by the retreat and the journal.
A Gift for Writers
Know a writer struggling to find time to write? Or are you one yourself? Give the gift of my course HOW TO KEEP WRITING WITH A FULL TIME JOB for just half-price! It’s a holiday sale through the end of the year. Just click the coupon below: The course includes: In Praise of the Part-Time…
How to Keep Writing with a Full Time Job: The Course!
It was a workshop, a book and now — an online course at Udemy! Do you want to write? Or write more? Do you find it difficult to make time to write or to make use of the time when you find it? I can help! And for a limited time, the course is half…
Write 4 a Day: 14 Apr 2024
Join us for the next of our monthly one-day writing retreats in beautiful surroundings in Berne NY.
Review: Loving Highsmith (2022)
I meant to go to Film Forum on Saturday to see a screening of this with a Q&A after with the director Eva Vitija and Megan Abbott, but alas something I ate on Friday made it inadvisable, so checking the Zeitgeist website I found it was playing down in Newburgh. I had never been to…
Surreal Noir debuts Monday!
MONDAY! MONDAY! YES, THIS MONDAY! My new radio show debuts Monday! I’m so excited. WHEN: 1800 BST/1300 EDT (also archived after if you can’t slope off work) WHERE: No Bounds Radio WHAT: A program that mixes surreal art, noir fiction and experimental music AKA what’s playing inside my head. Very much a work in progress!…
Channeling Dorothy Parker
I’m over at Gillian Polack’s blog musing on the effects of this year of pandemic and how we have all cycled through all the feelings (at least I have). Check out the wonderful crowd of women Gillian has gathered there for Women’s History Month, because she knows everybody. Yes, it features that lovely heart depicted…
Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker?
Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker? Everyone apparently: all the edge lords who should embrace a unique voice of pain and punk ethos; all the punk writers who want to champion a rebel voice and a fuck-you attitude; all the sex-positive feminists who want to celebrate our bodies and the right to express our truths however…