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 Here's an announcement from John
Coyne:
New Summer Writing Workshop for RPCVs
The Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Summer Writers' Conference at Goucher
College in Baltimore, Maryland this year will feature a special workshop
for Peace Corps Writers. Led by Mike Tidwell (Zaire 1985-87) the focus
will be on personal essays and travel memoirs. Tidwell's most recent book,
Amazon Stranger, is about his quest to locate a real-life Tarzan figure
living in the Amazon rain forest. His first book, The Ponds of Kalambayi,
is a memoir of his two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Tidwell is a frequent
contributor to The Washington Post Sunday Travel Section, where his essays
have earned him two Lowell Thomas awards, the highest prize in American
travel journalism.
Other writers at this summer's Goucher Writing Workshop will be William
Least Heat Moon, author of Blue Highways and Edmund Morris, who wrote
the Pulitzer Prize winning biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and
the recently published authorized biography, Dutch. The workshop is scheduled
for August 8ñ13. For more information, call 1.800.697.4646.
Here's a message from the Maniilaq Association, an Alaska Native Health
Care Facility (Inupiat Eskimo):
We are seeking some health care professionals who may be interested
in working in Artic Alaska (Kotzebue, Alaska). Our village is the largest
in this region (approximately 3,500 people - 70% Native) and we service
10 other smaller villages around the Kotzebue Sound. We are seeking individuals
who love their occupation and would like to work with our beautiful people.
If this sounds of interest to you, please contact:
Beverlee A. Pettit
Human Resources
Maniilaq Association
907/442-7662
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If you are an African American, Asian American,
Hispanic American or Native American, the Peace Corps' Office of Minority
Recruitment would like to publish your Peace Corps experiences on the Peace
Corps web pages. Here's more information on the
subject.
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