Jim Hawkins

Jim Hawkins Smyrna Emerging Literature: Playwriting By: Gail Obenreder “Theatre is a collaborative art, and a play truly lives when the director, actors, designers, crew and audience engage with the script.” A decade ago, Jim Hawkins decided to become a playwright after a 25-year career as a Methodist minister. Though he was a published nonfiction […]

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Alice Morris

Alice Morris Lewes Emerging Literature: Poetry By: Gail Obenreder “Poetry is so inclusive. I never know what might trigger the next poem.” In her first iteration as an artist, Alice Morris was a basketmaker, creating her works primarily from white oak trees “that I cut down in the woods, then split out by hand – […]

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JoAnn Balingit

JoAnn Balingit Newark Established Literature: Creative Nonfiction By: Gail Obenreder “Although I write to please myself, in doing so I write for those out in the world who feel alone in their histories. My work is about how to forgive, how to heal, and thus belong.” JoAnn Balingit is a second-generation Filipina American whose writing […]

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