Just got word of this excellent blog: Mira’s List. It’s an excellent collection of links to grants, fellowships, and residencies available to artists of every stripe, including writers. Just today I saw the Howard Fellowships in Fiction and Poetry, a $25,000 award for early to mid-career writers. Sweet! Seeing this page also reminds me that, it [...]

This is the educational video game project I am working on with Joshua — a CRPG based on the voyage of Lewis and Clark. Joshua does a good job outlining our mission and goals in this interview with the News-Times, a Connecticut newspaper. He doesn’t much talk about the philosophy behind making a good educational [...]

Hey folks, here are just a few shots from the reading I participated in on Thursday for the _Hit List_ anthology. I’m going to edit this post to add a few more shots: these are just of me, but some of the better pictures are the group shots featuring the other readers – Liz Martínez, Richie Narvaez, [...]

Raph Koster, the guru behind much of the best in online gaming for over a decade and the current kingpin behind Metaplace (of which I will be blogging more about later), has a post on his web site about why 1971 was the best year to be born for geeks. As a Generation ’71er myself, [...]