"An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated love."
-- Ms. Magazine
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My name is BARRIE JEAN BORICH and I write personal and lyric essays, memoirs, and other forms of creative
nonfiction. My book, My Lesbian Husband, won the American Library
Association GLBT nonfiction award. I am also a creative writing teacher specializing in creative/literary nonfiction. I teach in the Graduate School of Liberal Studies MFA Program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, as well as run small private workshops in my Minneapolis studio. Welcome to my Web site. |
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| New Writing [updated March 2007] | |
| My Books | |
| Where I Am Reading | |
| About My Writing and Teaching | |
| What is Creative Nonfiction? | |
| Bring Me To Your Town | |
| Interviews With Me About My Work | |
| Manuscript Critique Services | |
| Writing Retreats and Classes | |
| Archive of Barrie Quite Contrary (Barrie's 2004 BLOG project.) | |
| Tips from a Lesbian Husband | |
| A Fine Canine | |
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"An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated love." |
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NEWS JUST RELEASED. I have an essay (a chapter from my book-in-progress) in Kate Kysar's new anthology Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. Just in time for Mother's Day, a group of ilterary women come together to tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom. See my CALENDAR for information on upcoming readings. My essay "Cities of Possibility," an excerpt from my coming book, appearing in the Fall 2007 issue of Water~Stone Review, was nominated by the Pushcart Board of Editors (as well as by last years' editors of the journal) for a Pushcart Prize. I am also deep into my debut year of work as the first Creative Nonfiction Editor of Water~Stone. I am working with Hamline faculty colleagues and graduate students to select the CNF published in the annual, and am excited by what's coming up in the next issue, including compelling new work by established and emerging writers, as well as my March 2008 public interview with Susanne Antonetta, (available soon online via podcast) the author of BODY TOXIC and A MIND APART. Stay tuned for news. I was a Spring 2008 featured author and mentor in the 2007-08 Mentor Series at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. My Mentor Series Reading in April with Mentor Series participants, poet POLLY CARDEN and fiction writer PALLAVI DIXIT was an invigorating evening and we were all pleased to read to a packed house. I presented at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, this past February in NYC. I joined nonfiction writers Gretchen Legler (On the Ice), Mary Cappello (Awkward), Amy Hoffman (An Army of Ex-Lovers), Catherine Reid (Coyote) and Lori Soderlind (Chasing Montana) on a panel entitled We Will Be Citizens: The Insistent Voice of Lesbian Nonfiction. In November 2007 I read new work in Iowa City at the Graywolf Press Reading, along with Sven Birkerts, Albert Goldbarth, Robin Hemley, Paul Lisicky and Ander Monson at the NonfictioNOW Conference on the campus of the University of Iowa, November 1-3 2007. I also moderated, as well as contributed to, a panel at NonfictioNow entitled Bodies, Spaces, Memories. The panel included Suzanne Antonetta, David Shields, Paul Lisicky and Mary Cappello. After ten years teaching as an adjunct in the MFA Program of the Hamline University Graduate School of Liberal Studies I am pleased to announce that I have recently been promoted to the Core Faculty. I am also currently participating in the Rainer Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington, run by the uniquely luminous and lucid Stan Rubin and Judith Kitchen (and where I am finally, and happily, pursuing my own "terminal" academic degree). |
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