Brandon R Schrand's Blog

• Yaddo or Bust

  March 18, 2009

  • I have been offered a one month residency at Yaddo, the artist community in Saratoga Springs, New York. I will be in residence  from mid-June to mid-July, and will be working on my second book, Works Cited: Falling Up & Down in a Bookless World.I am by turns thrilled and freaked out. Thrilled that I will have the time to finish my book. Thrilled that it's like, you know, Yaddo, the place I ...
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• 2009 Get Lit! Cyber-Panel: What Keeps Me Writing?

  March 9, 2009

  • I have been invited to read and sit on a couple of panels at the 2009 Get Lit! festival in Spokane, Washington. This year, they are hosting a cyber-panel of festival authors who respond to the question, “What Keeps Me Writing?”  What keeps me writing? This is a good question. Is it too obvious to say that I am curious about my world and that the surest and most satisfying way for me to ...
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• Essay Wins Carter Prize

  February 2, 2009

  • My essay, “The Bone Road,” which was published in Shenandoah (Fall 2008), has just won the Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay for that magazine. Other writers who have won in the past include Rebecca McClanahan, Paul Zimmer, Seamus Heaney, Margot Singer, and others. In addition to the $1,000.00 booty, I will select next year’s winner.
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