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Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Nominated for Pushcart Prize

By Elizabeth Enslin on March 16, 2010

Last week, I found my name on a list of Pushcart Prize nominees at The Gettysburg Review. I published “Natural Births,” a chapter from Sacred Threads, in their Spring 2009 issue….

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Posted in Kudos | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, memoir | 2 Responses

First Wednesday Reading at Blackbird Wineshop

First Wednesday Reading at Blackbird Wineshop

By Elizabeth Enslin on March 11, 2010

On Wednesday, April 7 from 7-9 pm, I’ll be joining Peter Sears, Jackie Shannon-Hollis and Brian Christopher for a reading and wine-tasting co-hosted by Oregon Literary Review and Blackbird Wine Shop in Portland, Oregon….

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Dances With Titles

Dances With Titles

By Elizabeth Enslin on February 20, 2010

I work hard to polish the content of my literary nonfiction and poetry but don’t always give the same attention to titles….

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Posted in Recent, Writing Process | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, Poetry, stories | Leave a response

Waking to the New Year in a Treehouse

Waking to the New Year in a Treehouse

By Elizabeth Enslin on January 1, 2010

I woke to the first day of 2007 in a treehouse in Northern Laos. That set a standard for New Year’s celebrations that I’ll probably never live up to again. It was just me, my partner Jerry, and all the wildlife of Bokeo Nature Reserve. We could have joined eight other travelers at the main treehouse for a night of revelry, but we longed for solitude….

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Posted in Eco Travel, Recent, World Travel | Tagged creative nonfiction, nature writing, photography, wild | 3 Responses

"A Grammar for Yurt Living" Published

“A Grammar for Yurt Living” Published

By Elizabeth Enslin on December 18, 2009

I have a new essay published in The Smoking Poet. It’s new in the sense of being recently completed and published but also in the sense of process….

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Posted in Publication, Recent, Yurt Living | Tagged creative nonfiction, Writing, yurts | 4 Responses

Forthcoming Literary Nonfiction

By Elizabeth Enslin on December 3, 2009

More recent successes in publishing my literary nonfiction:
The Raven Chronicles has accepted a condensed and modified chapter from my ethnographic memoir, Sacred Threads, for publication.  “Meeting my Future in the Dark” about the first meeting with my Nepali in-laws over twenty years ago should be out in print next spring or summer.
After following my tweets  

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Posted in Publication | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, memoir, twitter | Leave a response

Literary Rejections I'm Grateful For

Literary Rejections I’m Grateful For

By Elizabeth Enslin on November 20, 2009

It’s easy for an emerging writer like myself to become obsessed with rejection. That’s mostly what comes back from all the packets I mail or documents I upload with a hopeful, electronic click….

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Posted in Writing Process | Tagged creative nonfiction, gratitude, literary nonfiction, memoir | Leave a response

Ama: My Greatest Teacher

Ama: My Greatest Teacher

By Elizabeth Enslin on November 10, 2009

Growing food this summer in northeast Oregon, I relied on all that I’ve learned over the years from books, conversations, observations, and personal experience. But I probably heard Ama’s voice more than any other….

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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Publication, Recent, Sustainable Food, World Travel | Tagged creative nonfiction, inspiration, stories, Sustainable Gardening | 2 Responses

Promiscuous Metaphors

Promiscuous Metaphors

By Elizabeth Enslin on October 5, 2009

I’ve outgrown my confusion over how to use Twitter. I’ve even learned to enjoy it. But until recently, I was still enough of a snob to be skeptical about finding literary inspiration there….

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Lunacy

By Elizabeth Enslin on April 27, 2009

In grade school, I used to love those assignments where the teacher gave us ten vocabulary words and said we had to use all of them in a story.  Those were good times, and I’ve already tried to revive them here in prose and poetry.
Today, the NaPoWriMo prompt at Read Write Poem invited us  

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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged creative nonfiction, nature writing, nostalgia, passion, Poetry | 7 Responses

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About Elizabeth Enslin

A writer based in Oregon, I look for inspiration and distractions in nature. An anthropologist, I ponder the places where nature and culture meet. A kitchen gardener, I promote biodiversity and learn from farming traditions around the world. A recovering academic, I try to do all with compassion and humor.

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