{"id":1340,"date":"2014-10-02T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2014-10-02T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:40:43","slug":"recent-highlights-joanna-clapps-herman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/2014\/10\/02\/recent-highlights-joanna-clapps-herman\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Highlights: Joanna Clapps Herman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"font-weight: 200; color: #3a3a3a;\">Joanna Clapps Herman Primes the Pump at\u00a0Cuppa Pulp Writers&#8217; Space<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"posted-on\" style=\"color: #888888;\"><a style=\"color: #666666;\" title=\"3:16 pm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/creative\/2014\/09\/20\/joanna-clapps-herman-primes-the-pump-at-cilk119\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2014-09-20T15:16:31+00:00\">September 20, 2014<\/time><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"byline\" style=\"color: #888888;\"><span class=\"author vcard\">by\u00a0<a class=\"url fn n\" style=\"color: #666666;\" title=\"View all posts by Sylke Jackson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/creative\/author\/sylke\/\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"author-name\">Sylke Jackson<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\">Thursday night we threw open our doors for a craft talk with Joanna Clapps\u00a0Herman, author of the recently released collection of short stories,\u00a0<i>No\u00a0<\/i><i>Longer and Not Yet<\/i>. The sneak preview of our beautiful new space drew a crowd of new and veteran authors who gleaned insights and contributed to a lively\u00a0discussion about the art and practicalities of writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\">\u201cWhere do you start? How do you find the conviction to create? What if your\u00a0idea is really big? How do you protect yourself and others when you write about real experience?\u201d Herman addressed these queries and counseled participants in strengthening their relationship to their craft.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0d44dd;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/creative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1559.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-222 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/creative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1559-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"An inspiring and vivacious speaker, Herman spoke movingly about her craft.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cYou have to dig a tunnel for yourself,\u201d Herman said. \u201cCreate a structure that you believe in, for no good reason\u2026 where you say \u2018I am in this and nothing is going to stop me.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cGo to the microcosm, the glimmer of thought, the half sentence. Don\u2019t undervalue your tiniest idea.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">A Manhattanville College MFA professor, Herman also read from \u201cQuesta \u00c8 La Vita (This Is the Life),\u201d one of the stories in\u00a0<em>No Longer and Not Yet<\/em>. Her writing, as Pam Katz says,\u201ddiscovers the human connections that warm the asphalt and brick of New York, delivering benediction along with a healthy dose of humor.\u201d Herman stressed the importance of building an artistic community and applauded Donna and Ken for founding CILK119. The sense of excitement was palpable and we can see that CILK119 is going to be fertile ground for growing great ideas and fruitful relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3a3a3a;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Herman has published both fiction and nonfiction, creatively exploring the day-to-day lives of families and communities.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Check out her website at:<\/span> \u00a0<a style=\"color: #0d44dd;\" href=\"http:\/\/joannaclappsherman.com\/\">http:\/\/joannaclappsherman.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Clapps Herman Primes the Pump at\u00a0Cuppa Pulp Writers&#8217; Space September 20, 2014\u00a0by\u00a0Sylke Jackson Thursday night we threw open our doors for a craft talk with Joanna Clapps\u00a0Herman, author of the recently released collection of short stories,\u00a0No\u00a0Longer and Not Yet. The sneak preview of our beautiful new space drew a crowd of new and veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,5,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-news","category-cuppa-blog","category-writers-resources","category-news-events","category-homepage-thirdfeature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuppapulp.com\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}