NCF Tuesday: Teacher Under Fire; Short Story Contest for New Writers; 'Damn Your Lazy' Greeting Card
Welcome back to the regularly scheduled blog. For my new readers, Tuesdays are devoted to literary N ews, writing C ontests and F un: NCF Tuesdays. News Teacher’s Published Romance Novels Cause Uproar English teacher, Judy Buranich , received negative responses when parents found out she moonlighted as a romance novelist. Buranich has taught at Midd West High School for almost 25 years and published under a pseudonym for 20 years. Parents of Middleburg, PA were outraged and feel she needs to make a choice between teaching and writing. Should Mrs. Buranich choose between teaching and publishing romance novels? Restoring the Original Version Dorian Gray Nicholas Frankel, associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, edited the new uncensored version of The Picture of Dorian Gray . He feels readers in the 21 st century can handle the more risqué and homoerotic passages that were revised in 1890. Do you think crit...