Kris Woll's "Furious" is one of the winning pieces in this year's Flash Fiction competition miniStories, which is sponsored by Magers and Quinn and presented by mnartists.org. Her story was selected by Jon Fasman, author of The Geographer's Library and Unpossessed City.All the winning stories, as well as the poems from our What Light contest … Continue reading Kris Woll is this week’s winner of the miniStories contest
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The College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota offers "a two-semester curriculum focused on the social, academic, and institutional needs of first-year students." This year the program, called CE+HD Reads, brought together students and faculty to read A Lesson Before Dying. They were also joined by the author, Ernest Gaines, who … Continue reading Meet the Author
Making a Difference
Paul Tough, one of America’s foremost writers on poverty, education, and the achievement gap, spent five years with Geoffrey Canada, following the parents and children who are struggling to better their lives at the Harlem Children’s Zone. Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America (from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a tour … Continue reading Making a Difference