Book: Low-Residency MFA Handbook: A Guide for Perspective Creative Writing Students

Several Seton Hill Writers contributed to the Low-Residency MFA Handbook: A Guide for Perspective Creative Writing Students by Lori A. May. This guide offers prospective graduate students an in-depth preview of low-residency creative writing MFA programs, as well as interviews with program directors, faculty, alumni, and current students.


Low-Residency MFA Handbook by Lori A. May

Here is the full list of Seton Hill Writers:
Shelley Bates (Shelley Adina)
Matt Duvall
Natalie Duvall
Heidi Ruby Miller
Jason Jack Miller
Cynthia Ravinski
Nicole Taft
Albert Wendland

ABOUT LORI A. MAY
Lori is a part-time writing instructor and a member of the AWP, MLA, and the Michigan College English Association. She is a frequent guest lecturer and workshop presenter at writers' conferences and graduate writing programs. In addition to her freelance writing, Lori is the author of Moving Target (Athena Force), The Profiler, and stains: early poems. More information about her is available online at www.loriamay.com.

Seton Hill Writers Online and Out in the World - September 2010

Lynn Salsi was the guest speaker at the Mecklenburg Historical Association. You can read an article about her and her award-winning The Jack Tales in the Charlotte Observer.

Cynthia Ravinski is part of a new blog group The Greater Portland Scribists.

Nicole Taft is giving away a free book at A Bookseller Recommends.

Thomas F. Monteleone and Mary SanGiovanni were guests and readers at Horrorfind Weekend.

Dana Marton is giving a free seminar at Coffee Time Romance on Project Management for Writers. Here are the first two lessons:
Lesson #1: Writing is an Art -- Publishing is a Business
Lesson #2: A Goal is a Dream with a Deadline

Michael A. Arnzen will be featured in the Snark Infested Waters radio program in October to discuss tracks from his audio CD, Audiovile. Look for it after October 5th online.

He will also read at the Morgantown Poets night on Thursday, Oct 21st, 7pm-8pm at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, WV. Directions available on booktour.com.

Seton Hill Writers News

Forza Renea will publish Lynn Salsi's latest middle grade novel about Ray Hicks titled Appalachian Jack Tales Told by Hicks, Ward, and Harmon Families; her first book featuring this prominent Appalachian storyteller, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks: Keeper of the Jack Tales, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize last year. Vietnam Firefight on Brown Water, her thesis novel for Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction Program, recently won the Stars and Flag Award.

Laurie Alice Eakes sold two more books to Baker/Revell, the fifth and sixth books they have bought from her in the past eight months, and the twelfth and thirteenth books she has sold in the past thirteen months.

Les Compagnons de l'Ombre 6 (Tales of the Shadowmen 6) featuring the story "De Fer et de Bronze" by Christopher Paul Carey and Win Scott Eckert is now available in...you guessed it! French.

Cynthia Ravinski has a new website: www.cynthiaravinski.com.

Natalie and Matt Duvall will be teaching two online workshops in 2010. In February, it's Writing Action Scenes the WWE Way at Romance Writers of America: Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal Chapter and the second one is in August at Passionate Ink.

Susan Mallery's latest romance High Powered, Hot Blooded is on shelves now.

Maria V. Snyder's novel Sea Glass was number 5 on Locus Magazine's TRADE PAPERBACK BESTSELLERS LIST this month.