NEWS LINDSEY JOINS THE TEAM The Good Letters blogging team, that is - part of the online riches at Image's online magazine.  Read her first posting here. LINDSEY'S CLASSES AT UC EXTENSION: FALL 2008 Lindsey will be teaching Writing Skills Workshop again, a popular class for those looking to sharpen their writing skills, learn tools for concise and correct style, develop a personal voice, gain some confidence, and have fun.  If you spend hours procrastinating, crossing out every other word it took you hours to come up with, or wondering about just how to use a semicolon, this is the class for you.    Also this fall, UC Extension is starting a new certificate program in writing.  As part of the new program, Lindsey will be teaching a new class on the craft of writing, conveniently called The Craft of Writing.  Designed for the creative writing student, this class explores the basics of craft:  point of view, characterization, imagery, etc.  Students learn -- and experiment with -- the techniques necessary for making fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.  ESSAY CHOSEN FOR UPCOMING ANTHOLOGY Lindsey's essay "The Water Will Hold You," originally published in Image magazine and included in Best American Spiritual Writing 2004, has been selected for the soon-to-be-published Religion in the 21st Century by Jonathan S. Cullick.  The essay became the kernel (and, in different form, chapter 5) of The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray.  ARTIST OF THE MONTH Image Journal, the website for the wonderful magazine Image: Art Faith Mystery, featured Lindsey as its Artist for of the Month for June 2008.  TRUTH IS STRANGER "The Art of Fiction" appears in spring/fall 2007 issue of Bellingham Review. Lindsey wrote this story while on residency at Ragdale in January 2005. She read from it at this year's Litquake festival, where it drew cheers, laughter, and a few shocked expressions from one young boy (Can she say that?!?). Watch for yourself. STORY WINS AWARD "Which Leaves Me" has been awarded 2nd place in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award.   Lindsey wrote the story in October 2005 at VCCA, a residency for artists and writers in the foothills of the Blue Ridge.   It will be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train. GETTING INSIDE Lindsey's article about visiting San Quentin and meeting the men of Katargeo, the prison's program for lifers, appeared in the February 17, 2008, edition of the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine.   WATER on air! Lindsey appeared on LightWorks (KRON-TV; channel 4 in San Francisco) on December 2, 2007  She was also interviewed on KGO-TV's View from the Bay on May 30, 2007. Who Wants to Wait? For Advent 2007, Lindsey wrote about the anticipation of the season. Read the essay here. LITQUAKE AFTERSHOCKS San Francisco's literary festival Litquake (in October 2007) featured lots of great readings and SRO closing night festivities up & down Valencia Street.  Some memorable moments: readings by Grotto writers Meghan Ward, Rachel Howard, Elizabeth Bernstein, Julia Scheeres. Lindsey shared the stage at the SFPL with Jacqueline Berger, Jeff Bell, Josh Kornbluth, and fellow Midlist author Toni Mirosevich. Watch the new site Redroom.com (Where the Writers Are) for interviews with Litquake participants. THE POWER OF NAMES Lindsey writes a guest essay on psalm 91 from the weekly lectionary for October 30. Read it here. LOCAL WRITERS AT COLE VALLEY FESTIVAL Locals got a chance to meet women writers and have books signed at The Booksmith booth on Sunday 9/23. Lindsey shared the booth with writer Cara Black (author of the Aimee Leduc mystery series set in Paris). Also there earlier in the day: Laura Fraser (An Italian Affair) and Kiara Brinkman (Up High in the Trees), among others. Coincidentally, Lindsey and Kiara also read together at St Stephen's Episcopal Church in Belvedere that evening. FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT Lindsey battles clutter, and The New York Times publishes her report from the front in the Home section on June 21, 2007. Read PDF here. SPOTLIGHT ON LITERARY MAGAZINES highlights "Burden of Bliss" Lindsey's essay, "The Burden of Bliss" —an excerpt taken from The Water Will Hold You—appears in the wonderfully rich literary magazine, Image. Newpages.com offers a review of the issue—as well as a list of literary magazines worth reading and submitting to. BODY + SOUL SPOTLIGHT ON WATER BODY + SOUL magazine selects The Water Will Hold You as an "inspiring title on going solo" in its Editor's Picks for May.