Archive for March, 2016
Writing Their Stories: Divergent Approaches to Writing Diverse Characters by Allen Gorney
Posted by jarviswrites in Diversity, Guest Bloggers on March 19, 2016
5Writers welcomes guest writer Allen Gorney back to our blog! Allen Gorney is a writer and actor. He currently teaches at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. His forthcoming novel The Scottish Bitch was released on March 17, 2016 under the name Jameson Tabard by Beating Windward Press. You can find him online at www.jamesontabard.com. […]
Diversify your Diversity by Nicole Oquendo
Posted by jarviswrites in Diversity, Guest Bloggers on March 13, 2016
5Writers.com welcomes Nicole Oquendo to the site! Nicole Oquendo is a writer, educator, and editor interested in multimodal compositions and translations of nonfiction and poetry. She is a member of the Sundress Publications Board of Directors, as well as an Assistant Editor for Flaming Giblet Press, the Nonfiction Editor of The Florida Review, and the […]
Permission to Keep Going by April L. Ford
Posted by virgowriter in Guest Bloggers on March 8, 2016
Permission to Keep Going by April L. Ford April 1, 2015 was a huge day for me: My first book, The Poor Children: Stories, debuted worldwide. The manuscript had been chosen from among several hundred entries to receive Grand Prize for the Santa Fe Writers Project 2013 Literary Awards Program for Fiction. While I delighted […]
Should the Need for Diversity Become a Requirement? By Brad Windhauser
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Diversity on March 3, 2016
Should the Need for Diversity Become a Requirement? By Brad Windhauser 2016’s Oscar nominations generated a lot of controversy. In particular, the acting categories were deemed “too white” due to the complete lack of non-white nominees. Should the Academy have ensured that their nominations better represented diversity? I don’t want to enter this particular debate, […]
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