by AuthorSue | Dec 30, 2014 | Cambodia, novels, philanthropy, teaching
I suppose this will be my last post of 2014. It’s been the busiest and most productive year of my writing/working career. At times I’ve wondered if it was worth it. But then something like this comes along. Jack Schimmelman, a writer for The Huffington...
by AuthorSue | Dec 16, 2014 | Cambodia, philanthropy, Uncategorized
Anjali House is the educational shelter in Siem Reap where my Writing Through Cambodia creative writing workshop started five years ago. Since then, it has become important to me in ways that go far beyond my own workshop with the older kids. Last month when I was...
by AuthorSue | Nov 26, 2014 | Cambodia
I have now seen this troupe several times and visited their school in Battambang, and I am still amazed. Phare trains poor Cambodian kids in arts like painting, music, video and circus skills. They have been giving livelihoods to poor Cambodians and spectacular...
by AuthorSue | Nov 23, 2014 | Cambodia, philanthropy, teaching, Uncategorized, Writing
I have just finished my week of running two Writing Through Cambodia workshops for two different high schools supported by Caring for Cambodia. These were two very different schools forty-five minutes away from each other, on completely opposite sides of the Siem Reap...
by AuthorSue | Nov 17, 2014 | Cambodia, philanthropy, teaching, Uncategorized, Writing
Less than 24 hours here and already two fun meetings. My friend, Yolanda, who led my very first trip to Cambodia which got me started on all this (it’s all her fault), happened to be here leading another house building trip for the NGO Tabitha, and so we...
by AuthorSue | Nov 12, 2014 | Cambodia, novels, philanthropy, poetry, teaching, Writing
This week I gave my annual talk to the students at Christ Church Canterbury University. My poetry play, Dreams of May, was placed on their curriculum for the BA Creative Writing course a few years ago, and so every year I go over there to talk about writing across...
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