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Smelling is believing

July 9, 201322 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, careers/jobs for people who are blind, memoir writing, Uncategorized, writing

I’ve been writing without vision for more than 25 years. Next month, at Northwestern University’s Summer Writers’ Conference, I’m going to try teaching people who can see how to do it, too: Smelling is Believing: Using Your Other Senses — Beth Finke Writer Beth Finke is blind, and her in-class exercises encourage writers to set […]

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Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts

April 23, 20134 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, blindness, memoir writing, technology for people who are blind, Uncategorized

Hi folks–it’s still Mike here, Beth will be back on the job soon. Meantime, thought I’d share a letter of appreciation she wrote to the National Endowment for the Arts, which funded her stay at the Vermont Studio Center — it gives a pretty nice summary of her time there.  April 19, 2013 Dear National […]

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