The Cutthroat Online Writing Mentorship Program

Dear Readers, Here is your chance to work on your writing for a month one-on-one with one of our noted writers! We are registering for fall writing mentorships now. CONGRATULATIONS to our mentor, Joy Harjo, for winning the 2013 PEN CENTER USA CREATIVE NONFICTION AWARD for her memoir, CRAZY BRAVE.

2013-2014 FACULTY

ENVIRONMENTAL ESSAYS: LINDA HOGAN

MEMOIR: JOY HARJO and DOUG ANDERSON

MIXED GENRE: SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY

NOVEL EVALUATION: DONLEY WATT

POETRY: DOUG ANDERSON, JOY HARJO, T.R. HUMMER, RICHARD JACKSON, PATRICIA SPEARS JONES, WILLIAM PITT ROOT, PATRICIA SMITH and PAM USCHUK

POETRY MANUSCRIPT EVALUATION/POETRY IN TRANSLATION MANUSCRIPT EVALUATION: RICHARD JACKSON and MARILYN KALLET

SCREENPLAY: STEVE BARANCIK

SHORT STORY: BETH ALVARADO, LORIAN HEMINGWAY, WILLIAM LUVAAS, DARLIN NEAL and DONLEY WATT

Work one-on-one with master writers. $1000 for a full month online mentorship in poetry, short story, memoir, essays, novel, or poetry-in-translation. $2000 for a six week detailed full-length manuscript evaluation in poetry, short story, memoir, screen play or poetry-in-translation. Our fee costs less than writing programs and writers conferences. Students pay one fee only: no academic papers, no academic credit, no travel, meals or housing. Go to www.cutthroatmag.com or call 970-903-7914 or write us at cutthroatmag@gmail.com Register early. Space is limited.

Child Theft

Native child theft isn't just the obvious, like the Cherokee case we are following where the child was trafficked by an attorney and "given" to a South Carolina couple, it has to do with education. In my elementary school in Tulsa, which was essentially on tribal lands, we learned that we were "other" and on the outside. We need our own Mvskoke schools with Mvskoke values. This will make for healthy cultural exchange. Respect is the keyword here, and there has been no respect. The State of South Carolina has never honored the place of indigenous peoples.