[3.27.06]
Great news from Katherine Vaz: She's just been named a Radcliffe Fellow for 2006-7. She'll be taking a break from being the Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard to complete the Radcliffe fellowship, then will return to her Harvard work in a year. She also announces that she has a story about Lisbon set to appear in the Spring, 2006 issue of The Harvard Review. Congratulations, Katherine!

[3.27.06]
Today's The Rocky Mountain News features young stage director Wendy Goldberg, who is currently directing The Clean House at Denver Center. "I think it's magic," she says of the production. "I think you can label it as magical realism if you want. All of the memory scenes are not literal, and so how to articulate that is a lot of fun, how to bring those background memories into the house." The play runs through April 22.

[3.23.06]
Naomi Ayala recently announced a new poetry series in Chicago. Palabra Pura is a collaborative endeavor sponsored by the excellent organization, the Guild Complex, with Letras Latinas of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the Rafael Cintron-Ortiz Latino Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Palabra Pura "promotes literary expression in more than one tongue through a monthly bilingual reading featuring Chicano and Latino artists." The series is held the third Wednesday monthly. More info.

[3.16.06]
Writing it Real, a terrific resource for writers on the web, recently featured Janice Eidus on the subject of Reading for Writing. Eidus's essay, "The Best Authority," is not to be missed—a lively account of writing from the perspective of Otherness. [Note: This essay may require logging in.]