Wyoming Arts Council

Advice for fiction writers: naming characters

Cheyenne fiction writer Joanne Kennedy wrote a recent blog post about the methods she uses to choose names for her characters, especially the villains: I’ve been struggling with the antagonist
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Burt Bradley writes review of Craig Arnold’s "Made Flesh"

Burt Bradley, poet and English prof at Northwest College in Powell, wrote a review of Craig Arnold’s final book for Sunday’s Billings Gazette. Here’s the opening section: One can’t help
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Burt Bradley writes review of Craig Arnold's "Made Flesh"

Burt Bradley, poet and English prof at Northwest College in Powell, wrote a review of Craig Arnold’s final book for Sunday’s Billings Gazette. Here’s the opening section: One can’t help
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U.S. Senate confirms new NEA Chairman

From a National Endowment for the Arts press release: Rocco Landesman, nominated by President Barack Obama as the tenth chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was confirmed today
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Teton County: "These are the people in your neighborhood"

CALLING ALL ARTISTS: Would you like to participate in a group show during Jackson’s Fall Arts Festival? THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD! is a show curated by Christian
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Teton County: "These are the people in your neighborhood"

CALLING ALL ARTISTS: Would you like to participate in a group show during Jackson’s Fall Arts Festival? THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD! is a show curated by Christian
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Fly-fishing love stories — and more — on "Fishing Music II"

Grady Kirkpatrick spent part of today’s “KUWR Morning Music” show playing excerpts from “Fishing Music II” from Snake River Records. The jaunty opening song is “Little Miss Cutthroat” which you
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Fly-fishing love stories — and more — on "Fishing Music II"

Grady Kirkpatrick spent part of today’s “KUWR Morning Music” show playing excerpts from “Fishing Music II” from Snake River Records. The jaunty opening song is “Little Miss Cutthroat” which you
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Check out the 2009 Wyoming Arts Summit

Wyoming Arts Summit 2009 will be held September 24-25, at Little America in Cheyenne. [Update: On July 30, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s office emailed the WAC office saying the mayor
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One-time Cheyennite a WILLA Award finalist

Pam Nowak, my one-upon-a-time writing colleague in the Cheyenne Area Writers’ Group, was notified July 24 that her 2008 novel “Chances” has received a 2009 WILLA Finalist Award in Historical
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