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• Aeschylus to Afghanistan, When Will We Ever Learn?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  ow President Obama tells us that the oil wars have cost us $10 trillion. If we believe the most strident Republican critics, just $1 trillion would pay for a decade of real health reform and care for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• A Conversation With My Son

  
  Draining the Locks — Authority: 119
  (SCENE: A living room. FATHER sits crosslegged on the floor, looking at a kitschy Tarot deck he once bought for his wife as a stocking stuffer. SON, 4, bounces around him. SON stops, sees what FATHER is doing.) SON: Can I see that card? FATHER: Sure. (FATHER hands a card to SON, who commences bouncing around, ...
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• Mailbag, Friday December 4, 2009

  
  MFA Blog — Authority: 107
  How about a new mailbag for all your last minute, the-deadlines-are-upon-us questions! I also wanted to draw your attention to this guide to personal-statement writing , drawn from the comments in the last mailbag. Finally, I had an applicant contact me looking for information on playwriting MFAs - not a topic that ...
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  Portland Center Stage — Authority: 419
  {photo: an actual page from Dicken’s manuscript of A Christmas Carol .} Mead Hunter, the creator of Portland Center Stage’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol just posted a really interesting piece on his blog about the recently released images of the original manuscript of A Christmas Carol - complete ...
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• I Attend Fancy Hollywood Parties...So YOU Dont Have To!: PEN USAs 19th Annual Literary Awards Festival

  
  Bamboo Nation — Authority: 431
  [This post is part of a continuing series about fancy Hollywood parties that I have somehow managed to infiltrate.] PEN USAs 19th Annual Literary Awards Festival was held last night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a place with restroom stalls bigger than my first dorm room and soft cotton towels to dry your hands ...
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• The Films of 2001

  
  Marissabidilla — Authority: 128
  I wrote the other day, "I think 2001 is the year I became aware that movies could be art and not just entertainment." And specifically, I think three films that came out that year are what did the trick. The first, and most important, was Moulin Rouge , which came out in June. (I was almost fourteen--the ...
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• Its Not Over Til I Say Its Over!

  
  Bamboo Nation — Authority: 431
  This Friday is an event that represents the culmination of my USC students work this semester. Even though our last class was yesterday, I making them do this thing at the end of the week at the lovely Pacific Asia Museum because it is always my intention to work my students fingers to the bone . I want blood! Come ...
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• You might not have believed the NaPlWriMo post from yesterday, but here’s proof

  
  Lit Between the Ears — Authority: 104
  In case you missed yesterday’s post, “Done! Off the Pipes, an audio drama, is finished at 114 pages” ( http://twoplusplus.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/done-off-the-pipes-an-audio-drama-is-finished-at-114-pages/ ), the proof is enclosed! The Official Rhino Badge was earned by Frank Curts letting me tell 114 pages ...
  5 days ago

• Done! Off the Pipes, an audio drama, is finished at 114 pages

  
  Lit Between the Ears — Authority: 104
  Monday evening, 30 November, Off the Pipes was uploaded to the NaPlWriMo site ( http://www.naplwrimo.org/OffThePipes ). The main character is Franks Curts, a quarteback for the American football team, the Rivermen, in the Industrial Football League. Curts had been bothering me to write his story for four years. The ...
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• Prince Gomolvilas Rule #734: New Event? New Tie!

  
  Bamboo Nation — Authority: 431
  Ive been asked by PEN Center USA to be a presenter at its annual Literary Awards Festival , a fancy ceremony thats being held at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Wednesday night. Click the above photos to enlarge the invitation and see all the fabulous people wholl be there. (Elmore Leonard! Dustin Lance Black! Other ...
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• WGGB Award Winners

  
  Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Blog — Authority: 126
  The Writers Guild of Great Britain announced the winners of its 2009 Guild Awards at a ceremony in London on 29 November. Television comedy / light entertainment: Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton for Outnumbered Television drama series: Toby Whithouse for Being Human Television soap / continuing series: ...
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• The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams

  
  A Writer's Desk — Authority: 435
  How did the title of one of Williams best-known plays come to be? Gary Dexter lets us know. From the piece... Tennessee Williams’ sister Rose suffered from lifelong mental illness, and underwent a pre-frontal lobotomy in 1937. The operation was new and untested, and in Rose’s case was a disastrous failure, ...
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• "Casanova": Who Writes Your Screenplays?

  
  Marissabidilla — Authority: 128
  I spent Thanksgiving with my aunt, uncle, and cousin in the East Bay. After dinner (the basics like turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes, plus a dish of creamed peas and pearl onions--a tres Midwestern contribution from my Minnesotan uncle) we watched the Casanova film that came out a few years ago, starring ...
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• Playwrights Foundation- 2010 Play Festival Play Submission Deadline

  
  The Brainpan — Authority: 143
  Submit Plays for 2010 Festival, Deadline: November 30, 2009 Plays Must be Postmark by November 30, 2009 Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival The Playwrights Foundation is very proud of our biggest annual program, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF). Each year we open submissions to all playwrights writing ...
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• New Playwriting Competition

  
  Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Blog — Authority: 126
  For the new international biennial competition, the International Playwrights Forum (IPF) of the International Theatre Institute focuses on one of the painful issues of our global contemporary world: the problem of exile and fugitives, migration and identity. Playwrights are invited to submit a play (not a ...
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• No new posts for a while

  
  Marty Nemko — Authority: 113
  Ill be blogging little or not at all for the coming six weeks or so. Im devoting as much as possible of my discretionary time to finish writing the aforementioned play, "The Sexiest Man Alive." Its about a nominee for "Sexiest Man Alive," who in fact has low sex drive. Most of the play occurs on his wedding night. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ontario Writers’ Conference Newsletter Sign-up…

  
  A Wandering Mind — Authority: 107
  Sign-up now for the Ontario Writers’ Conference Newsletter. Get the latest news. Get the updates as they arrive.Click on the link below, fill in your email address and click on the ‘Join Now!’ button.ONTARIO NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP First newsletter will be going out shortly. Find out what a BLUE PENCIL SESSION ...
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• Robert J. Sawyer to Speak & Teach at 2010 Conference

  
  A Wandering Mind — Authority: 107
  Science Fiction phenom, Robert J. Sawyer will be the keynote speaker and one of the workshop instructors for the 2010 Ontario Writers’ Conference. Conference to take place on May 1st, 2010 at Deer Creek Golf & Banquet Facility in Ajax, Ontario…minutes from Toronto. For Mr. Sawyer’s bio information, please ...
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• Saints and Sinners GLBT Literary Festival’s Full-Length Playwriting Competition

  
  Creative Writing Contests — Authority: 126
  The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in association with the Marigny Theatre Corporation and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival announces a playwright’s competition. The winning play from our fourth annual contest will be produced by the Marigny Theatre Corporation and will premiere the weekend ...
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• Day 1 at Arvon

  
  Why Don't You Write About Me? — Authority: 104
  Monday Manage to get a ride to Shropshire with another student to save costs. The ride is good. I say I am thinking of doing an MA in playwriting and the student, who had been taught by Simon Stephens at the Royal Court, advises that I wait to see what I think after doing the advanced playwriting course at Royal ...
  2 weeks ago

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