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A Glimpse of Old Peaks Island

By seashorewrite on April 22, 2010 • ( 1 Comment )

I live on an island where stories cling to patches of dirt and leaning buildings the way an oak leaf clings to a branch in winter. The porch of my own house, […]

Maine Reads Event

By seashorewrite on April 5, 2010 • ( Leave a comment )

Book Sale and Author Signing (including the island’s own James Hayman) Saturday, April 10, 2010 Noon- 2 PM The Abromson Center on the Portland Campus of the University of Southern Maine Plan […]

Youth Storytelling through Animation

By seashorewrite on February 24, 2010 • ( Leave a comment )

The Friends of the Peaks Island Branch Library promotes reading and appreciation of stories through a number of venues. This Saturday, February 27th is a wonderful opportunity to view storytelling through animation […]

Circumnavigating-the-Blogosphere Workshop

By seashorewrite on December 16, 2009 • ( 1 Comment )

Are you an author, artisan, or small business owner who wants to manage your virtual presence on that vast real estate, the internet? Do you often feel you’re awash in a digital […]

Tom Bohan: A Blow with a Word Strikes Deeper

By seashorewrite on December 8, 2009 • ( 1 Comment )

An interior wall of the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building bears the well-worn adage “The pen is mightier than the sword,” a saying attributed to the Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton (who, […]

Reading by Author of “City of Belief”

By seashorewrite on November 2, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

As ocean waves heighten and the north wind blows harder, the Peaks Island community grows tighter. Reasons to gather are as welcome as a warm mug of coffee on cold hands. This […]

Island Celebration of National Day of Writing

By seashorewrite on October 21, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

The muses have visited Aaiyn Foster. The result? An island celebration of the National Day of Writing on October 20th. Okay, we’re going to miss the exact date, but that’s never important […]

Nanowrimo Eve

By seashorewrite on October 19, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

Some say that our modern Halloween holiday descended from ancient religious observances of a sacred time, a time when the boundary between our world and another world “thins,” easing passage between. For […]

Anne Sibley O’ Brien

By seashorewrite on October 16, 2009 • ( 6 Comments )

Twenty five years ago this month, Anne Sibley O’Brien received a phone call, the phone call that writers long anticipate; an editor called who wanted to publish her book. Since then, O’Brien, […]

Nicole d’Entremont, “City of Belief”

By seashorewrite on September 29, 2009 • ( 2 Comments )

From stories to soup to Sudden Fiction, Nicole d’Entremont is one of those writers who touches lives, over and over again – with and without her pen in hand. I caught up […]

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