Writing Forward with Leanna James Blackwell

Oct 18, 2019 · 52m 15s
Writing Forward with Leanna James Blackwell
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Join the conversation as I talk with Kristin Sunanta Walker and Leanna James Blackwell about writing, narrative medicine, and having the courage to face down the inner critic. Leanna James...

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Join the conversation as I talk with Kristin Sunanta Walker and Leanna James Blackwell about writing, narrative medicine, and having the courage to face down the inner critic.

Leanna James Blackwell is director of the Bay Path University MFA in Creative Nonfiction and assistant professor of creative writing. An award-winning essayist and documentary playwright, she is a member of the Northampton Playwrights Lab, former artistic director and playwright-in-residence of TKO Theatre and the Inner Stage in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the co-founder and director of The Place for Writers at Mills College in Oakland, California.

A frequent contributor to arts and parenting journals and a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee, Leanna’s essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction’s True Story; Full Grown People; Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers; The Best of Brain, Child; Literary Mama; five80split: A Journal of Arts and Letters; Hidden Manna: The Journal of Faith and Story; and Mount Holyoke and Amherst magazines. Her work has also appeared in the best-selling literary anthologies A Ghost at Heart’s Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption and in Toddler, winner of an Independent Publishers Award (Seal Press). She was a Fiction Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center and a participating writer at the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Conference for Writers, and the Bay Area Writers’ Project.

Join Leanna and amazing writers on 10/27/19 at Bay Path University. Register here: https://www.baypath.edu/events-calendar/details/the-healing-power-of-narrative-medicine/2019-10-27/
Want to learn ore about the MFA program?
https://www.baypath.edu/academics/graduate-programs/creative-nonfiction-mfa/

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https://www.baypath.edu/academics/graduate-programs/creative-nonfiction-mfa/
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