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At High Point Market | Consumer demand fuels the return of the writing desk

AT HIGH POINT MARKET — During the pandemic shutdown, millions of people transformed a bedroom or corner of the family room into a working home office. Two and a half years later, many employees have adopted a permanent, or perhaps hybrid, work schedule, prompting renewed attention to the home office category and desks that function […]

Spears is proud to be writing the news as a Cherokee journalist

Cherokee Nation citizen and journalist Nancy Marie Spears holds the three awards she accepted at the recent Native American Journalists Association conference. After graduating from Oklahoma University, she is now working for The Imprint News covering youth-related issues. WILL CHAVEZ/CHEROKEE PHOENIX PHOENIX – One of the many Native journalists who attended this year’s Native American […]

Young Saturday ‘Visiter’ competition kicks off for Maryland high school writers

BALTIMORE — What better time than October for a writing contest for work inspired by Edgar Allan Poe? Poe Baltimore and the Baltimore National Heritage Area are hosting the Second Annual Young Saturday ‘Visiter’ Awards. The free competition is open to all Maryland high school student-creators who are inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s life and […]

He’s a felon who was homeless. He just won two prestigious national writing awards

Writer Frank Kensaku Saragosa, who was formerly homeless, poses near a sidewalk encampment in San Diego. SAN DIEGO — Omaha native Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an […]

Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village.

Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an embankment off Commercial Street near Interstate 5. Saragosa, 56, was anxious that some of the homeless people in the sidewalk encampments […]

Quinta Brunson Lands First Emmy; Only Second Black Woman To Win In The Writing For A Comedy Series Category

Click here to view original web page at Quinta Brunson Lands First Emmy; Only Second Black Woman To Win In The Writing For A Comedy Series Category In her show’s first season, Quinta Brunson won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing For a Comedy Series tonight, making her only the second Black woman to win in […]