About this woman
“…a cyber-pioneer…”
“…[one of] literature’s electronic visionaries…”
–Kelly Milner Halls, “Exploring E-zines: A Literary Revolution Online” 2001 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, interview w/MacEwan
That is the Literary Assemblagist. Now, as NuvoFluxus Assemblagist – my role in the galaxy is to prepare the universe for eventual organic discussions of evolutionary economic environmental art projects. Really… I dreamed about it last night.
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“Yup, it’s true. Eight years ago, my visionary genius – documented and duly recorded – became public knowledge. Today the legend continues. While my assemblage art profoundly echoes the transient themes of yesterday’s blog posts, recording the unresponsive multitudinous presence of too many illiterate masses, current dogma remains intact. Thusly supposed, creationism relates not to evolutionary processes but instead to the mixed media representations of juxtaposed virtual and concrete forms.”
–Valerie MacEwan, “Endlessly Quoting Myself” 2009, interview w/me
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Valerie is the editor/publisher of the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She studied creative writing in Holland at the Ploughshares International Fiction Writing Seminar; received a grant from the NC Arts Council to fund the original print issue of The Dead Mule, and is an outspoken advocate of Linux and open source software Her writing has appeared in numerous places like the Mississippi Review, Tattoo Highway, The Asheville Poetry Review, Night Train Magazine and others. She spent 3 years as the Books Editor and Featured Columnist for Popmatters Magazine of Global Culture. While she helped to incorporate WebDelSol as a non-profit organization, work continued on the sadly now defunct wow-schools.net project. Dancing with Uncle Virgil, a literary work-in-progress, has been in the “edit” stage for over 17 years. Genius is slow to boil but mighty tasty when finished cooking. Google Valerie MacEwan. Apture Valerie MacEwan. Image search for Valerie MacEwan.
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Her literary blog, Mental Kudzu, is located at macewan.net. Her most recent Assemblage Collection of Altered Volumes can be viewed at Schenley Farms Terrace Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA and on this website. Currently, her work “Ann’s Head” is on display at the Beaufort County Arts Council [Washington NC].
Current project working title: Pseudo-Scientifica. Photos of work-in-progress online were by April 15th, just in time for when the taxman cameth. Read Ideal Absolutes. After you read macewan.org, pop on over to Janis Owen’s “Cracker Kitchen” website, check out the book and then leave a nice comment about how fantastic the site looks (as it was created by yours truly because Janis is one talented woman. Curiously, when writing in the third person I find myself at a loss for words…)
A few details:
Beaufort County Art Council Fine Arts Show
Juried Competition
Fall 2008
First Place, 3D
Honorable Mention, 3D
Beaufort County Art Council Fine Arts Show
Fall 2006
Juried Competition
3rd Place – 3D
Honrable Mention – 3D
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About the scholar. Education |
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East Carolina University Greenville, NC
n B.A., History, major. Political Science/English, minor.
n Honors graduate.
n Graduate School: ECU, History
n Undergraduate work: U of SC-Aiken; U of Arkansas.
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Attended Ploughshares International Fiction Writing Seminar; Well, The Netherlands, 1996.
Sponsored by Emerson College, Boston, MA
Phi Alpha Theta International History Honors Society
East Carolina University Graduate Fellowship recipient
NC Arts Council Literary Grant recipient
Published: PIF Magazine; The Rebel; Asheville Poetry Review; The Kostroma Writer’s Project, The Mississippi Review,
Word Riot, Ducts, Spillway Review, Tattoo Highway, Poetry Repairs, Novel & Short Story Writers Market 2002, 2003, Night Train...
Publisher/Editor: The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
Books Editor and Columnist for Popmatters.com
Assistant Editor: The Rebel, East Carolina University Literary Magazine. Editor/Freelance Technical Writer/Grant Writer: Various in-house publications & newsletters; Grant Writer; Standard Operating Procedure guides; Organizational inter-official residual verbage extrapolator |
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