This option will reset the home page of this site. Restoring any closed widgets or categories.

Reset

Home  »  Archives

Creative Work

Finding Identity in Fresno: Contributing to Chicana Literature

Written on 8 Jul, 2010 at 11:30 in Creative Work, Featured, Non-fiction | viewed 6,043 times | 2 Comments
Finding Identity in Fresno: Contributing to Chicana Literature

About the Author Erin Alvarez will start the M.F.A. program in fiction at California State University in the fall of 2010.  She was born and raised in Fresno, but lived in Santa Cruz, Watsonville, San Diego, and Oxnard before realizing... (Continue reading)

Selections of Poetry by Raquel Lara

Written on 8 Jul, 2010 at 11:29 in Creative Work, Featured, Poetry | viewed 875 times | 0 Comments
Selections of Poetry by Raquel Lara

About the Author My name is Raquel Lara.  Born and raised to Paula and Rosario Lara on the Southeast side of Fresno California. I have lived all my life in the barrio.  I am proud Mexican American. Sinaloa are where... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:     

Santiago by Bernice Olivas

Written on 8 Jul, 2010 at 11:29 in Creative Work, Featured, Fiction | viewed 3,584 times | 1 Comment
Santiago by Bernice Olivas

Santiago By Bernice Olivas It’s fall again, and I can hear souls on the wind. They drift under the door and caress my cheek. I wake in the night and I smell Mexico on the cold Idaho air.  In the... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:

Welcome to NALIP!

Written on 1 Feb, 2010 at 20:33 in Creative Work, Featured, Film | viewed 919 times | 0 Comments
Welcome to NALIP!

As some of you may know, I will be shooting my first feature-length documentary this May. The documentary follows the lives of six immigrant women in New York City and focuses on how the duality of their experience of belonging... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:                             

2010 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest

Written on 29 Jan, 2010 at 6:21 in CFPs, Creative Work | viewed 3,512 times | 0 Comments

KR will be accepting electronic submissions February 1st through February 28th, 2010, through the Short Fiction Contest page of the KR website. Louise Erdrich will be the final judge. The winning story will be published in The Kenyon Review, and... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:     

The Cape (Madrid)

Written on 19 Apr, 2009 at 9:45 in Creative Work, Poetry | viewed 486 times | 0 Comments

The Cape (Madrid) The matador walks slowly across the ring, head bent at that perfect angle. Surging roars and swirling play of cape against sky, sound against skin– all soft edges in my memory. Gentle whispers, a cool white arm-... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:

Get Creative!

Written on 11 Apr, 2009 at 23:29 in Creative Work | viewed 2,537 times | 1 Comment

Post your short stories or poetry. Share your talent with the group.... (Continue reading)