Writing

Spencer Honors English: National Writing Contest Winners (The Daily Reporter)

16 May 2008

Spencer High School's Honors English students have been named "Best Class" in the national writing contest sponsored by Penguin Books. The contest "Confessions of a Word Nerd" required students to submit personal essays of 1,500 to 3,000 words and correctly utilize 60 SAT vocabulary words.

Atmosphere's MC discovers joy of resolution in writing (Denver Post)

16 May 2008

The scene is all too familiar for Sean Daley: He's out at a bar in his native Minneapolis, and someone who looks vaguely familiar approaches him and says, "Yo, man, I can't believe you dropped me in that song like that."

Hall was novelist, writing teacher (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

16 May 2008

NEVADA CITY - Oakley Hall, a novelist and writing teacher who helped define California literature in the generation after John Steinbeck, has died. He was 87.