After considering 85 applications, the panel has made its decisions. There were many strong applications and it was a tough choice, but the following writers were selected. We look forward to getting to know them at Seaview. Toni Brown Memorial Scholarship First Place - Heather Bowlan, a poet from Philadelphia, PA Heather Bowlan's writing has appeared in New Ohio Review, Nashville Review, Day One, the Ploughshares blog, and elsewhere. She serves as the Chapbook Editor for BOAAT Press and Assistant Poetry Editor for Raleigh ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2017: Two Poems by Renée Ashley
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Kendal Lambert that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Salt to Make a Sea by Renée Ashley I cannot hold such emptiness —the only meaning, the meaning we make & the way time tugs the body down, the body named bone, named brain, the color of dust & tremor, the soft meat & the bag it lives in. We beg from the body; it shivers & spits—we settle ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2017: Excerpt by Michelle Cameron
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Jamie Walters that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Excerpt from Chapter 21 The Fruit of Her Hands by Michelle Cameron Inch by inch, I slowly moved up to the pyre. The guards were still unloading the carts, piling the books in one enormous mound, cursing as the mountain grew higher and as books tossed on the top tumbled off and had to be restacked. Looking around, I saw the boys were right. ... Read More...
Getaway Reads 2017: Two Poems by Stephen Dunn
Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Jamie Walters that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. Emergings by Stephen Dunn Let’s say men and women begin as slime, and some of us crawl out of the sea, and fall into circumstance fraught with danger, and cannot survive, but do, slithering into a cave where the stories evolve, first as pictures on the walls, then as grunts that turn into something like words. For years, though, ... Read More...
A safe place to write (Video)
Earlier this year, we gathered a group of "re-PETERs" to share their Murphy Writing experiences. We were surprised and pleased to see recurring themes develop. This video highlights the strong sense of community participants feel at our programs. Thank you to everyone who has offered us testimonials, both written and recorded. There would be no Murphy Writing without you. -+-+- About the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway Escape the distractions of your busy life. Advance your craft and energize your writing at the Winter Getaway. ... Read More...