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Meet a Resident: Dayna Patterson
Dayna Patterson’s creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Hotel Amerika, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, POETRY, North American Review, Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Zone 3, and others. She is the author of If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020), a hybrid collection of poetry and lyric essay that explores her Mormon ancestry and upbringing,…
Meet a Resident: Corinne Manning
Corinne Manning is a prose writer and literary organizer. Their stories and essays have been published widely, including in Toward an Ethics of Activism and Shadow Map: An Anthology of Survivors of Sexual Assault. Corinne founded The James Franco Review, a project that sought to address implicit bias in the publishing industry. Corinne was a Mineral School resident in 2019. Kait…
2020 Residents Announced!
We made it to year six — in time for a pandemic! Nonetheless, Mineral School, the “little residency that could” located in a former elementary school in a lake town near Mt. Rainier, is proud to announce The Class of 2020. In a competitive process that drew 238 applicants from throughout the United States and…
Meet a Resident: Beth Pielert
Beth Pielert is a writer, director, and producer working across mediums that include gaming, television and documentary film. Pielert formed Good Film Works in 2001 while writing & directing Out of the Poison Tree for PBS, a documentary that explores truth and reconciliation for survivors of the Cambodian Genocide. Some of her credits include award-winning…
Meet a Resident: Catherine Alice Michaelis
Catherine Alice Michaelis of Shelton, Washington joined Mineral School for our 2019 residency as the Mona Lisa Roberts fellow in visual art. Catherine is a book and paper artist whose work has been collected by 85 public institutions. She is also a curator and collaborative printmaker. Read more about her work at her website. Kait Heacock asked…
Meet a Resident: Donna Miscolta
Seattle fiction writer Donna Miscolta (Mineral School ’18) is the author of When the De La Cruz Family Danced (Signal 8 Press) and Hola and Goodbye (Carolina Wren Press). The recipient of support from 4Culture and Artist Trust, with stories published in many journals, she recently learned her new fiction project, working-titled Angie Rubio Stories, will…
Meet a Resident: Carina del Rosario
Carina del Rosario (2018) uses photography, digital media, and visual art to explore the human desire for community, and also the pull of solitude, for shrugging of ties that tangle and constrain. Whether working on specific projects about cultural communities and social issues or wandering streets around the world, she strives to capture people’s lives unfolding…
2019 Residents Announced!
Mineral School made it to year five! In a competitive process that drew 320 applicants from throughout the United States and Canada, a panel of five Northwest writers, two filmmakers, and four artists — including three Mineral alumni — have selected a total of 20 talented writers and visual artists who will live and work in…
Meet a Storyfinder: Warren Etheredge
Seattle-based screenwriter, film critic, film festival curator/programmer, and instructor Warren Etheredge plays an important role in the Northwest film scene. This May, he’ll visit Mineral School during our debut screenwriter residency to talk to screenwriting residents who join us from Bahrain, Denver, the San Francisco Bay Area, and metro Seattle. This residency is offered in…
Meet a Resident: Grace Campbell
Olympia fiction writer Grace Campbell was born and raised in New York state. She recently published the chapbook of flash nonfiction Girlie Shorts, and she is the co-founder of Black River Press as well as a nonfiction reader for the journals 5×5 and Spry Literary Journal. Her work has appeared in Gravel, New Flash Fiction Review,…