Dinty W. Moore

Upcoming Events in May and June

dintywmo — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:39:46 +0000

Dinty will be teaching in early May at the Miami Writers Institute. Later in the month he is giving a talk at the River Teeth Nonfiction Conference. And in June, you can study with Dinty (and other fine writers) at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.

New Video Essay at TriQuarterly

dintywmo — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:30:50 +0000

In my writing, I have learned to trust the impulses which rise up unbidden, the unconscious voice that is always more interesting than the chatter embedded in my frontal lobe. For this video essay, I tried to rely less on words and ideas and instead trust the visuals. It was ...

On Writing Brief Essays: Dinty at River Teeth Blog

dintywmo — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:57:53 +0000

Dinty was interviewed recently at the River Teeth blog about winning the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Excellence in Literary Editing, about writing in general, and about editing the online magazine Brevity. The full interview is here.

Teaching in Geneva, Switzerland

Josh — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:06:29 +0000

Dinty will be travelling to Switzerland for the biennial Geneva Writers’ Conference in February 2012, offering workshops on the personal essay to 200 writers from around the world and joining a stellar teaching staff of writers, editors, and agents.

The 8th Geneva Writers’ Conference will be held February 3-5, 2012. Here is ...

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

Josh — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:01:56 +0000

“Dinty W. Moore has collected some very telling nudges from a range of fine writers, and tilted them in a lightly Buddhist angle of reflection to catch the light of your own desire to write.” —Susan Murphy, author of Upside-Down Zen

Going a step beyond typical “how to write” books, The ...

Dinty Teaching at Kenyon Summer Workshops

Josh — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:01:25 +0000

Dinty will teach again this summer at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in mid-June, along with Rebecca McClanahan, David Baker, Carl Phillips, Jake Adam York, Geeta Kothari, Nancy Zafiris, and Lee K. Abbott.

The Kenyon Review workshops focus on the generation of new work with three-hour workshops each morning, focusing on writing exercises, reading and critiquing work, and talking ...

Homepage – Top Left Blurb

Josh — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:00:46 +0000

Breathe deeply, friends.

Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide to Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

Josh — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:03:02 +0000

Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to ‘the pursuit of mental rabbits’—a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the ...

Between Panic and Desire

Josh — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:04:45 +0000

Winner of the Grub Street Book Prize for Nonfiction, Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after one of its chapters, “A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem,” this collection is an unconventional memoir ...

The Accidental Buddhist

dintywmo — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:18:59 +0000

“Moore’s hilarious and sometimes irreverent look at Buddhism is a perfect primer for the budding Buddhist.” - Publishers Weekly

The Accidental Buddhist is the funny, provocative story of how Dinty W. Moore, as American as Huckleberry Finn, went looking for the faith he’d lost in what might seem the ...