Linda Hasselstrom’s curiosity about the plants and wildlife that inhabited the South Dakota ranch, which became her home when she was nine years old, began a lifelong habit of note-taking. […]
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Meet Leslie Tall Manning
Leslie Tall Manning, who won the 2016 Sarton Award for her young adult fiction book, Upside Down in a Laura Ingalls Town, was in college before the writing bug bit […]
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Winner of the SCN 2015-16 May Sarton Award in contemporary fiction for A Drop in the Ocean: A Novel, Jenni Ogden grew up in a country town in New Zealand […]
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“Keep the faith with your work. When you find something important to write about, find many different ways to investigate it, and never stop making it better.” The author of An […]
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Virginia A. Simpson, Ph.D. earned a Fellowship in Thanatology by the Association of Death Education & Counseling (ADEC). Dr. Simpson was cited in the July 2007 issue of Town & […]
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May Sarton, the poet and novelist who is the inspiration behind Story Circle Network’s annual Sarton Award, was also an inspiration for author Barbara Stark-Nemon’s book, Even in Darkness, the […]
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