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		<title>&#8220;Family&#8221; &#8211; from Creative Nonfiction&#8217;s Brevity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/pastissuestwo/brev38/Autman38.html]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2012/01/24/family-from-creative-nonfictions-brevity/</link>
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		<title>The Little Essay that Could</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very generous professor in Columbia’s MFA program told me she thought I had something with this “black guy in Utah story.” Armed with her belief in the idea, I spent a month in the summer of 2006, ten years after I had left The Salt Lake Tribune, and researched and wrote on my time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2011/11/29/the-little-essay-that-could/</link>
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		<title>My Unlikely Magic Carpet Out of Daily Newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago today, The San Diego Union-Tribune, my last newspaper, carried my front page story about Cupcake Brown&#8217;s remarkable journey from a life of street gangs, addiction and prostitution to graduating from law school. Writing this story catapulted me into a world of literary agents, college teaching, an MFA program and the world of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2011/05/18/my-unlikely-magic-carpet-out-of-daily-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>The Last Time I Saw Him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GRADY, Ark. – My grandfather and I were about to head to Star City to visit Aunt Rosie, at 95, our oldest relative who resided in a convalescent center. As we were about to get into the rental car, a large black and gray German shepherd from a neighbor’s yard broke free. Growling and moving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2011/02/16/the-last-time-i-saw-him/</link>
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		<title>A slow birthing of &#8220;Sanctified: A Memoir&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days after my birth in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, my parents drove 27 miles south and east to Grady, the town where Mama grew up in the Mississippi Delta. I weighed 8 pounds and 6 ounces and was 21 inches long, tall for a newborn back in 1966. Mama pulled the sheet back and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2010/07/13/a-slow-birthing-of-sanctified-a-memoir/</link>
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		<title>Visiting Tahiti and French Polynesia&#8217;s Islands of Paradise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PAPEETE, Tahiti &#8211; From that first whiff of fresh gardenias on board on Air Tahiti Nui’s late-night flight from LAX, our delegation’s trip from rural Indiana’s flatlands to South Pacific’s plush utopia, had already entered a new realm of sensory bliss. The flight attendants placed flowers in our ears and switched to traditional Polynesian wraps. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2010/06/11/the-incomparable-french-polynesia/</link>
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		<title>Small Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SPENCER, Ind.,- Pride festivals in San Francisco, Chicago and New York City boast hundreds of thousands of spectators every June with their go-go boys, drag queens and dykes on bikes. Courage drew activists together some forty years ago to create something out of nothing in those urban centers. Now they&#8217;re pretty much corporate organizations with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2010/06/07/small-town/</link>
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		<title>Reading at the San Francisco Public Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my reading from the Spring of 2010 at the San Francisco Public Library:]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2010/05/31/reading-at-the-san-francisco-public-library/</link>
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		<title>Soul-Making Literary Competition Awards Ceremony in SF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has Youtube footage of my section of the reading held at the San Francisco Public Library. There were almost 40 readers that day. We were each allotted 4 minutes. I guess I went over. Again, thanks to Rowena, Jennifer, Philip, Lane, Orlando, Dan and Cupcake for all showing up to support me. It turned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2010/03/30/soul-making-literary-competition-awards-ceremony-in-sf/</link>
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		<title>Intercultural Essay Win&#8230;yeah!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, Samuel! I&#8217;m writing to let you know that you won 2nd place in the Intercultural Essay contest. I loved your essay, &#8220;A Dash of Pepper in the Snow.&#8221; It&#8217;s what I was hoping to find when I started this contest. Essays that really explore intercultural and race issues, that aren&#8217;t afraid to look at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writingaboutlives.com/2010/02/01/intercultural-essay-winyeah-2/</link>
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