Tag: San Miguel

  • Mexican Immigration to US Comes to a Halt

    Mexican Immigration to US Comes to a Halt

    Mexicans are staying in Mexico.  “No one wants to hear it, but the flow has already stopped,” Mr. Massey,  co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton, recently said.  “For the first time in sixty years, the net traffic has gone to zero and is probably a little bit negative.” Even with border violence, economic…

  • A Writer, an Agent, and a Children’s Book Story

    A Writer, an Agent, and a Children’s Book Story

    The San Miguel Writers’ Conference is excited to announce that after attending the 2012 conference, writer Stacy Clark has found an agent and subsequently a book deal.  Her children’s book When the Wind Blows will be published in the near future by Holiday House Books. How did this all happen?  Well, we wrote Stacy and…

  • Driving in Mexico: No Country For New Cars

    Driving in Mexico: No Country For New Cars

    The thought of driving in México strikes a deadly fear into the hearts of many Americans and Canadians alike. Of course, they purchased Méxican car insurance when they crossed the border. Yet somehow this only made them feel legal, not safe. Now here’s the reality as they ease their $46,000 BMW onto the pavement and…

  • Mexican Immigration to US Comes to a Halt

    Mexicans are staying in Mexico.  “No one wants to hear it, but the flow has already stopped,” Mr. Massey,  co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton, recently said.  “For the first time in sixty years, the net traffic has gone to zero and is probably a little bit negative.” Even with border violence, economic…

  • Warm Winter at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference By Dhana Musil

    I had the most wonderful fortune of being awarded a scholarship to attend the San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference last month.  It was the first time in 16 years I’d traveled abroad without children in tow. The anticipation was extreme– a combination of counting down the sleeps and– maybe I shouldn’t go? From the…

  • Teen Workshop at the Writers’ Conference By Susan Page

    The Teen Creative Writing Workshop has always been a beloved part of the San Miguel Writers’ Conference and Literary Festival. Conference planners are keen to share the excitement of the week and the rich opportunities for learning and inspiration with local high school students. This year, the workshop, taught entirely in Spanish, reached new heights,…

  • Getting Started By John Scherber

    You write a letter to your daughter, a college freshman in Iowa in her first year of living away from home, and next you write one to your father, a retired barber living in Prescott, Arizona. You mistakenly switch the letters in the envelopes, and by the time you realize it, they are already on…

  • Beautiful Writing — Who Needs It? By John Scherber

    Many writing coaches counsel their students that “beautiful writing” in fiction usually goes unnoticed by the public. Their readers are busy marching through the narrative on their way to see what happens next. After all, as writers, isn’t our primary job being storytellers? What does it matter how it’s done, as long as it’s clear,…

  • Thirty-Seven Years Of Silence By John Scherber

      I like to suggest that I hold the world record for writer’s block: 37 years. If Guinness has never called me to account for saying that without documentation, it must be because they don’t have this category in their book. Perhaps they should. Things started out reasonably enough. In high school I discovered the…

  • Driving in Mexico: No Country For New Cars

    The thought of driving in México strikes a deadly fear into the hearts of many Americans and Canadians alike. Of course, they purchased Méxican car insurance when they crossed the border. Yet somehow this only made them feel legal, not safe. Now here’s the reality as they ease their $46,000 BMW onto the pavement and…

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