{"id":13632,"date":"2023-01-30T08:48:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2023-01-30T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T14:43:44","slug":"elizabethtown-college-faculty-member-publishes-flash-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/elizabethtown-college-faculty-member-publishes-flash-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Faculty Member Publishes Flash Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Lecturer of English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/depts\/english\/faculty.aspx\">Erica Dolson<\/a> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/brightflash1000.com\/2022\/12\/05\/chance-of-showers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published a flash memoir, \u201cChance of Showers,\u201d<\/a> in the online literary journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/brightflash1000.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Flash Literary Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m so excited that this short memoir came as a result of taking risks and trying new things with my writing,\u201d Dolson said.\u00a0\u201cI owe a special thanks to my writing group, whose detailed, honest feedback helped with my revision process.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A flash memoir is a short, creative nonfiction work that generally consists of pieces under 1,000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Dolson\u2019s memoir centers around living alone and reflects on the simple joys of an independent lifestyle. She first began working on this piece with a personal anecdote in mind and the intention of exploring new narrative techniques, including writing from second-person point of view, and working in the flash form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightflash1000.com\/2022\/12\/05\/chance-of-showers\/\">The short memoir is available to read on the Bright Flash Literary Review website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Lecturer of English Erica Dolson recently published a flash memoir, \u201cChance of Showers,\u201d in the online literary journal, Bright Flash Literary Review. \u201cI\u2019m so excited that this short memoir came as a result of taking risks and trying new things with my writing,\u201d Dolson said.\u00a0\u201cI owe a special thanks to my writing group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":13635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,774,7],"tags":[197,260,1350],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus-community","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-english","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13646,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions\/13646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}