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Readings/ Writers' Conferences/ Courses OfferedI will be presenting at the following writer's conferences this year: March 31, 2012 -- Half-day workshop sponsored by the Skagit Valley Writers League. I will be leading a program on Structure in Fiction/Non-Fiction. The event will take place at the Mount Vernon Senior Center from 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm. Registration for Skagit Valley Writer League member is $15.00 and for non-members the fee is $20.00. To register, please go to http://www.skagitwriters.org. May 12, 2012 -- A workshop/seminar in Port Townsend. Information to come. June 22024, 2012 -- Chuckanut Writer's Conference, Bellingham, Washington. July 15-22, 2012 -- Taos Summer Writer's Conference. I will be teaching Prose Style (The Art of the Sentence, the Art of the Paragraph) PRISCILLA LONG COURSES OFFERED
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Selected WorksScience/Memoir/Reflection
My every-Wednesday blog-column on how science rubs up against the rest of life.
The ABCs of the thrumming, plastic mystery that allows us to think, feel, and remember.
This creative nonfiction on the Human Genome Project appeared in The American Scholar and won the National Magazine Award in 2006.
Art and Life
This creative nonfiction comparing Wallace Stevens and Meret Oppenheim appears on Web Conjunctions.
History of Coal Mining
"A very well-written and well-researched history of the American coal industry from its earliest days through the 1920s." –Choice
"An intense and accomplished social history." –Christopher Hitchens, New York Newsday
"One of those rare works that asks and answers important questions about who we are...as a nation and how we got to that point."–Barbara Kingsolver, Women's Review of Books
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