tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84314082011-10-11T03:37:27.656-07:00Tom Kealey is the author of the <a href="http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com/">The Creative Writing MFA Handbook</a>. His work has appeared in Best American NonRequired, Glimmer Train, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University is a tutor at 826 Valencia. His novel in progress is entitled <a href="http://thewingedgirl.blogspot.com/">The Winged Girl</a>Tom Kealeynoreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431408.post-1146070933414692402006-04-27T11:00:00.000-07:002006-04-27T11:11:30.713-07:00

My new website is on...http://tom.kealey.googlepages.com/homeOr you can simply type "tomkealey.com," and you'll be redirected.

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I had two interviews last week with 52 Projects and The Publishing Spot (here and here). They're up now.Now that it's out, I'm pretty happy with the book. It's starting to get some good reviews. I started The MFA Blog, and I answer questions on there from prospective students. It's basically a forum for their thoughts and questions. I learn from them too. It's really helped build an audience for

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The second part of my interview with The Publishing Spot is now up. We're talking about digital writing.

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Jason Boog of The Publishing Spot interviewed me recently about the MFA book and blog. Part One is up now.

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Thinking about class starting on Tuesday. I was reminded of Michelle Richmond's excellent Writing Exercises page. Check it out. For the the next exercise, simply hit refresh on your browser.

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I'm making changes over at the MFA Blog. Check it out.

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Students of mine wanted to read my story "From Bremerton." Here it is. It originally appeared in Ascent, Volume 25.3.-------------------------

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I took down the link to The Winged Girl. People complained. Here it is again. It's just a teaser anyways. Thanks for asking.

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KQED has a podcast of my story "The Boots" on its website. You can download it for your ipod. Link

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From Bremertonby Tom KealeyShelby woke before sunrise, dressed in her warmest clothes in the dark. In the kitchen, she packed her bookbag with apples and bread, some peanut butter. She added a map of Seattle, a carton of cigarettes she’d hidden at the top of a cabinet, brewed some coffee on the stove. She walked barefoot in the trailer so as not to wake her sister and the boyfriend. It was still

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The Creative Writing MFA Book is officially released in February, but it will be available on the Continuum Website on December 26th.The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through

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Tuesday night's reading at Intersection for the Arts was a lot of fun. The winners of the Tannenbaum, Duval, and Jackson Literary awards (Abeer Hoque, Diane Marie Delgado, and me) read, as well as former winner Julie Orringer. Thanks to everyone who came out, and special thanks to Intersection for the Arts and the San Francisco Foundation.Here's what the judges had to say about our work. From the

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Jeffrey Yamaguchi is the founder of 52 Projects, a site dedicated to beginning, maintaining, and yes, even finishing creative projects. His book, 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity has just been released, and his previous work is Working for the Man: Stories from Behind the Cubicle Wall. In addition to the original 52 creative projects, Yamaguchi encourages readers of his site to

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Post Secrets is updated.

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A Dutch bra shop has created a "breast wall" to help male shoppers identify their mate's bra size. Yes, a breast wall is just what it sounds like: an entire wall of different sized breasts."When trying to buy a sexy bra for their wife or girlfriend, usually they point to other women in the shop or, when asked about size, they say a 'handful'." The wall consists of rows of silicon breasts in

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Great photographs here at Beyond Monochrome, including many in the aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes.

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Today is Walker Evans's birthday. He's one of my favorite photographers. More from Wikipedia.

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CNN has an interesting post: Emails from citizens to the President. There's a wide range of views here from all over the political spectrum. I got a real sense of the country by reading through these dozens of messages.Bush should start listening to the American people by bringing our troops home, removing Rumsfeld, appointing moderate justices and finding Osama. As a citizen who voted for Bush

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Christine Texiera sends us a link to BalloonHat.comIn 1996, Addi Somekh and Charlie Eckert began traveling to different places in the world to make balloon hats for people and take photos of them. The goal was to show people all over the world laughing and having fun, and to emphasize the fact that all human beings are born with the ability to experience joy. In total, they visited 34 countries

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Eric Puchner's first story collection, Music Through the Floor, is out now. "With Music Through the Floor, Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories – strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking – portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting to navigate

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From Ali Stine:Light it on fire, make it vomit, give it a gunshot wound, drown it in a bag. Welcome to Extreme Pumpkins, your one-stop for pumpkin patterns, photos, success stories, and "alternative pumpkin carving techniques." Extreme Pumpkins Be sure to check out the conjoined twin. Because holidays are for pyros.

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And... Jessica points our way to Found Notes. It's just what it sounds like: the weird, the beautiful, the creepy, the not safe for work. Great found notes here.

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1up has a great feature story about the farming and selling of currency within online roleplaying games. Find out how all the World of Warcraft Gold and Star Wars Galaxies Credits are getting on eBay and who is making real life cash.posted by Jon Berry

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I have just learned that if I dig a hole in my back yard straight down I will not end up in China like my mother warned, but in the Indian Ocean. Neat. Try it out posted by Christine Texiera

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November is National Novel Writing Month. That's right, write a novel in a month.More information at Nanowrimo.org

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The OpenFiction Project is an opencourseware resource for those who are teaching (and teaching themselves) the art of fiction writing. Great writing exercises here.

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Found Photos is updated.

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Gretchen Worden was the curator of the human oddities museum known as the Mütter. She passed away last year, and there's a terrific article in the NY Times about this strange and wonderful individual and her collection.This, her friends agree, is how she would want to be remembered: her own Gretchen Worden Room at the Mütter Museum, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia's collection of

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"The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes. The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and is to be broadcast on national television next week as a campaign advertisement.... The short film pulls no punches. It opens with

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Many fashion photos, plus added sarcastic comments, of both male and female models at Threadbared.com. This site is hilarious.Thanks Allison J.

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Want to get beyond blue state/red state? Take the Politics Test over at OKCupid. Around 25 questions that will take you about 4 minutes to answer. You'll be placed on the politics graph, which, if you take the above picture as an example, would place me somewhere between Gorbachev, Redford, and Kerry, and well to the "left" (right on the chart) of Darth Vader. You'll get four specific measures.

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Sarah Shoughi is a London based photographer whose site Dead Time is definitely worth your visit. She's been experimenting recently with expired film, which brings out many of the bright colors in her prints.I love the macabre and the unusual: photographers I admire include Joel Peter Witkin, Francesca Woodman, Diane Arbus, Ralph Meatyard and Jan Saudek. The cameras I use are: Hasselblad 500C,

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Post Seven of the Winged Girl is now up, as is a new mailbag on the MFA weblog.

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Post Secrets is updated every Sunday.

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Metro Bits has listed some of the best designed subway systems in the world. No, we're not talking about making the trains run on time; we're talking about the artistic design of the subway stations. The photo above is of a Paris subway. Berlin, Hong Kong, Montreal, and yes, good old Boston even make the cut. Lots of great photos and descriptions here.via EyeBeam

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Paul Rivoche runs a great site called The Scientific Artist: Crafty Thoughts on Drawing and Design. He made some wonderful observations about how to improve one's drawing (or any craft for that matter) in one of last week's posts:• If you always draw from photos, throw them away and learn to draw and invent "out of your head". Be free and imaginative---for the moment stop worrying about "accuracy

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Rich Vogel is the brains behind Found Photos, one of the Pick's all-time favorite sites. There are thousands of photographs - mostly portraits - that have literally been found, mostly online. The photographs range in era from 2005 all the way back to the 1950s. The current update features a woman drinking Jim Beam in celebration of New Years Day 1995, a cookout complete with rusted barbecue

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Frank Feijen is the webmaster of Happy Palace, a collection of some of the most unusual, strange, and lovely images found anywhere on the web. On some days you'll find two new pictures, on other days you'd find a dozen new additions or more. It's quite difficult to categorize or summarize the images. To say that is an eclectic mix is a vast understatement. On a page from this past week I found a

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I like these photographs from Matt O'Sullivan and The Narrative. Great black and whites and colors of Toronto, New York City, and elsewhere.

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Tutors from a number of 826 Organizations, including the original tutoring center in San Francisco, and the new 826 L.A., visited the Houston Astrodome a couple weeks back to tutor, educate, and entertain many of the displaced children from hurricane Katrina.Mac Barnett sent in a series of dispatches about the trip, and here they are. Tami, a tricycle-riding girl trailing braids behind her, comes

Tom Kealeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431408.post-1128004920910501992005-09-29T07:38:00.000-07:002005-09-30T09:32:52.466-07:00

Thanks to David Pescovitz over at Boing Boing, who found this photo of a two headed tortoise found in Havana last week. From the People's Daily Online:A woman holds a baby tortoise with two heads in Havana September 27, 2005. The tortoise was found some days ago on a river bank at the city forest. According to scientists of the local aquarium who inspected the animal, it seems to be perfectly

Tom Kealeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431408.post-1127890805185889682005-09-29T00:02:00.000-07:002005-09-29T07:38:54.016-07:00

Artist Ji Lee placed hundreds of blank "Speech Bubbles" on advertisements all over New York City. Then, he went back a few days later to see if anyone wrote anything in them. They did. Like, in almost every one of them. Great insights and humor here, with categories such as Politics, Sex, Personal Messages, and Religion.

Tom Kealeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431408.post-1127890864949672082005-09-29T00:00:00.000-07:002005-09-29T07:38:40.963-07:00

Bibi's Box has a terrific post with dozens of links to sites concerning Frankenstein. Rock on, Bibi!

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About Tom Kealey.The Creative Writing MFA Handbook will be published in December 2006. I've got an MFA weblog up now, and we're talking shop with writers, teachers, and prospective students. Check us out. More about the book here.My weblog is called The Daily Pick. We feature news about photoblogs, technology, humor, and anything strange or interesting.I'm rewriting my novel, and I'm posting many

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I've worked as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University since 2003. I teach workshop-style classes at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels, as well as a class I recently developed “Fiction for Film,” which is a bridge class between fiction writing and screenwriting. I've also developed a number of projects to build on the community of the writing program, including The Four

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Here are some quotes I like: If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut. – Stephen King I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting

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