Post Tagged with: "Dinty Moore"

By Kristin M. Distel Graduate student Jacob Little co-founded Profane Journal, “an annual print and audio journal featuring an eclectic mix of poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction” in January 2014. “Part of the fun of the journal is never being certain what’s going to show up in the submission queue. […]

Two Ohio University alums received Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council for state fiscal year 2016. “Seventy-five (75) $5,000 Individual Excellence Awards were approved totaling $375,000. There were 392 applications received for a total request of $1,960,000,” according to the Ohio Arts Council announcement. “Individual Excellence Awards are […]

Author Dinty W. Moore, Professor of English at Ohio University, is having a lot of fun with his new book, Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals. From drawing on napkins at Casa Nueva to explaining em dashes, Moore’s book, he writes on the […]

Two of Ohio University Ph.D. students in creative writing are among 10 finalists for the Iron Horse Review chapbook prize. “Who do we root for?” says Dinty Moore, Professor and Director of Creative Writing. “Congratulations to current nonfiction Ph.D. Kirk Wisland and recently-graduated and greatly-missed Geri Lipschultz. May the best […]

English Professor Dinty W. Moore, Director of Creative Writing at Ohio University, recently judged an international writing contest at Writing for Peace where participants, age 13-19, are asked to write an 800-1000 word essay about a social, political, environmental, or familial challenge faced by individuals within a cultural group, or […]

By Jeff Worley From Perspectives To get a quick sense of who Dinty W. Moore is and where he is on the planet, take a deep breath and read from his self-styled online bio: “Dinty lives in Athens, Ohio, thefunkadelicious, hillbilly-hippie Appalachian epicenter of the locally-grown, locally-consumed, goats-are-for-cheese, paw-paws-are-for-eatin’, artisanal-salsa, our-farmers-market-rocks-the-hills sub-culture, where […]

Curiosity is essential for an artist, for a writer, says Professor Dinty W. Moore, whose book the Accidental Buddhist was the result of his curiosity about Buddhism in America. Moore teaches “Creative Nonfiction” at Ohio University. The “creative” part of that equation involves not just curiosity, but also discovery. The […]