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Family Stories at the Palestine Writing Workshop, October 2011

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Family Stories at the Palestine Writing Workshop, October 2011

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Family Stories at the Palestine Writing Workshop, October 2011

In October, I traveled to Birzeit to teach a one-week course entitled FAMILY STORIES: WRITING FICTION AND NARRATIVE NON-FICTION FROM LIFE at the Palestine Writing Workshop. For inspiration we read work by Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, George Orwell, Grace Paley, and William Saroyan, among others. One of the students, Ian Rhodewalt, wrote a beautiful description of the work we did that week that was posted to…See More

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Annals of Shameless Self-Promotion, Volume 1, Number 1

My third novel ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS has been scheduled for publication by Grove/Atlantic for Fall 2012. My previous book was published in 2003, and the publishing world has undergone a sea change since then. Social networking seems to have replaced the book tour, so in preparation for my season of shameless self-promotion, I am building my online presence. First...The @nancykric Twitter Feedhttp://twitter.com/#!/nancykricand second, Nancy Kricorian Author Page on Facebook…See More

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Nancy Kricorian commented on the blog post 'Palestine Festival of Literature, Day 5: Hebron, Bethlehem Checkpoint, Ramallah'

Hey Kamy, I hadn't heard of Souk Ukaz, but it looks really interesting. I'm wondering where in Jerusalem they met under whose auspices. We stayed in the West Bank the whole time, never technically crossing into Israel, although the border…

May 13, 2010

Kamy Wicoff commented on the blog post 'Palestine Festival of Literature, Day 5: Hebron, Bethlehem Checkpoint, Ramallah'

Nancy, thank you so much for contributing this important reflection and witnessing to She Writes. One of our founding members, Sarah Saffian, just returned from a trip sponsored by the University of Iowa, Souk Ukaz 2010, and she blogged while she…

May 13, 2010

Palestine Festival of Literature, Day 5: Hebron, Bethlehem Checkpoint, Ramallah

5 May 2010, Wednesday, PalFest Day 5Wednesday was a tough day.Our first event was at Al Khalil/Hebron University, where our host pointedly announced from the podium, “We are not a free people.” After the plenary, Rachel and I headed to our workshop entitled “The Media’s Role in Creating Political Realities.” The classroom was filled with journalism students, the majority of them young women in headscarves, and two of their instructors. Rachel started by asking the students to define the word…See More

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Hey Nathalie, There is a small (not very active) group called Palestine Writers that you might want to join. I "met" Sarah Irving via that group... Nancy

Mar 30, 2010

ginster plantagenet commented on the blog post 'The Legacy of Grace Paley: Art & Justice'

very good, thanks for sharing!!!!!

Feb 23, 2010

Fiction As a Path to Truth

From Writing Our Parents’ Wars, panel at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1/24/10, NYCI’m the proverbial cuckoo’s egg on this panel, as I am here to talk not about a memoir but a novel, and the novel was not about my parents’ wars, but about my grandmother’s surviving the mass deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which came to be called The Armenian Genocide.My first novel ZABELLE is a fictionalized account of my grandmother’s life as a Genocide survivor and immigrant bride. When the…See More

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The Legacy of Grace Paley: Art & Justice

“The Legacy of Grace Paley: Art & Justice” by Nancy Kricorian, from a panel discussion “Celebration of Grace Paley: Speaking Truth to Power,” Barnard Center for Research on Women and Gender, 12/11/09I met Grace Paley in the early 80’s when I was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College. At the time Grace and I were both members of the Upper Valley Committee Against Registration and the Draft. The last time I saw Grace was in 2004 around the publication of the paperback of my second novel when…See More

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Nancy Kricorian replied to the discussion 'Tell us which book YOU bought in support of the women of She Writes!'

I bought Lorrie Moore's A GATE AT THE STAIRS.

Nov 12, 2009

Sarah Irving left a comment for Nancy Kricorian

Hi Nancy - thanks for the bunch of comments and messages - made me smile on this grey Monday morning. The Stolen Beauty campaign does look great, it's good to see someone finally co-ordinating stuff on this issue because it's been around…

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Who I am:: Novelist, writer and activist based in New York City

Connect with me online! My site, blog, or Twitter handle are:: FB:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Nancy-Kricorian/219419888096906

Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/nancykric

Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:: Zabelle (novel, 1998)
Dreams of Bread & Fire (novel, 2003)
All The Light There Was (novel, forthcoming 2012)

My writing is:: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Blog Posts

Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:: occasionally

I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:: The Salon of Women Writers, NYC; PEN American Center

My professional associations:: CODEPINK Women for Peace
The Armenia Tree Project
PEN American Center

I found out about She Writes from:: Kamy and Nancy

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Family Stories at the Palestine Writing Workshop, October 2011

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Annals of Shameless Self-Promotion, Volume 1, Number 1

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The @nancykric Twitter Feedhttp://twitter.com/#!/nancykric

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Palestine Festival of Literature, Day 5: Hebron, Bethlehem Checkpoint, Ramallah

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5 May 2010, Wednesday, PalFest Day 5

Wednesday was a tough day.

Our first event was at Al Khalil/Hebron University, where our host pointedly announced from the podium, “We are not a free people.” After the plenary, Rachel and I headed to our workshop entitled “The Media’s Role in Creating Political Realities.” The classroom was filled with journalism students, the majority of them young women in headscarves, and two of their instructors. Rachel started by asking the… Continue

Fiction As a Path to Truth

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From Writing Our Parents’ Wars, panel at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1/24/10, NYC

I’m the proverbial cuckoo’s egg on this panel, as I am here to talk not about a memoir but a novel, and the novel was not about my parents’ wars, but about my grandmother’s surviving the mass deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which came to be called The Armenian Genocide.

My first novel ZABELLE is a fictionalized account of my grandmother’s life as a Genocide survivor… Continue

The Legacy of Grace Paley: Art & Justice

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“The Legacy of Grace Paley: Art & Justice” by Nancy Kricorian, from a panel discussion “Celebration of Grace Paley: Speaking Truth to Power,” Barnard Center for Research on Women and Gender, 12/11/09

I met Grace Paley in the early 80’s when I was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College. At the time Grace and I were both members of the Upper Valley Committee Against Registration and the Draft. The last time I saw Grace was in 2004 around the publication of the paperback… Continue

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At 9:13am on December 10, 2009, Bernice L. McFadden said…: Dear Nancy:

You may not know me or my work, but I am the national bestselling, award winning novelist of six critically acclaimed novels who has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.

“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”

I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And yes, KINDLE purchases count.

If you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering and Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.

Peace & Light,

Bernice L. McFadden
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At 11:36pm on August 9, 2009, Sarah Irving said…: Hi Nancy - thanks for the bunch of comments and messages - made me smile on this grey Monday morning. The Stolen Beauty campaign does look great, it's good to see someone finally co-ordinating stuff on this issue because it's been around on the edges of campaign awareness here for ages and never really got going, and it's annoying to see how many 'health' shops that supposedly have ethical positions sell the stuff. Anyway, come and join http://www.shewrites.com/group/palestinewriters if you fancy another forum for this stuff...

At 2:43pm on June 30, 2009, Rachel Kranz said…: Excellent! I'll email as soon as I get back. Oh, Book Builders! She was a horror, wasn't she? Nice to remember how little power she has ultimately had over our lives--and how much she seemed (at least to me!) to have then...!

XOOX

At 1:54pm on June 30, 2009, Jodie Evans said…: Thanks for the invite, Gloria Feldt talked about this at the WMC board meeting, but I had no idea how to access it.

At 1:48pm on June 30, 2009, Rachel Kranz said…: Hey, Nancy, what a pleasure to hear from you--and in such an unexpected way! I'm out of town working on the NEXT novel (!!!) but back after July 13th and would LOVE to get together--I'm at rckranz@mindspring.com, or at 212-929-0123, so let me know! XOXO

At 6:03am on June 30, 2009, Mira Schor said…: HI Nancy, how funny, I didn't realize that shewrites worked a la Facebook in terms of friending! I have to look into it.

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