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Emily Breunig’s The Loyalty of Water

Friend and inspiration Emily Breunig has initiated a new shared online writer’s space called The Loyalty of Writers, featuring women … More

Emily Breunig, Women, women writers, Writer's Life

Geography as the Body & Inherited Landscapes: A Shamefully Overdue Re-Cap on the 2012 Mills College Workshop

Absolutely and positively late in re-capping but still here it is, an overview of the Mills workshop that your salonniere … More

Culture, Ethnic Politics, Events, Exercises, Fiction, Filipino, Filipino American, Filipino Literature, Geography, Identity Politics, Melissa Rae Sipin-Gabon, Mills College, Narratives, Reading, Space, Writer's Life, Writing Workshops

A Conversation on Dialogue

  Favorite all time film and a great example of scintillating dialogue: The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, 1941. On January … More

Borges, Characters, Dialogue, F Scott Fitzgerald, Victoria Strauss

Part of the Political Content & Engagement Writing Workshops at Mills College

Your Salonniere is honored to be invited as a guest speaker for writer Melissa Rae Sipon-Gabon’s Political Content & Engagement … More

Critical Theory, Culture, Ethnic Politics, Fiction, Filipino, Filipino American, Filipino Literature, Melissa Rae Sipin-Gabon, Mills College, Narratives, Writer's Life, zz packer

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