Writing Resources - Indiana and Beyond

 I am a little late putting up Literary Events Around Indiana – October 2025. However, it also includes November events.

(This led me to The Irving Theater. Interesting things, if not about writing. Back in the day, I spent time there watching foreign films.)

The Indiana Authors Awards: Nominations Open for 2026 Awards 

Okay, the National Centre for Writing is from Norwich, England, which is not even close to Indiana, but that is no reason we cannot use its Writing Hub

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Unclear of The Creative Independent, but why not add it, too? Grace Bryon's On getting out of your bubble got my attention and my time. This turned out a good thing for me, and my projects:

From one Midwesterner to another, how does the Midwest stay with your writing? Has your creative approach changed since you’ve moved?

I’m haunted by the Midwest. I love the Midwest. That’s closest thing I have to an element of tribalism or loyalty. I always say, no one’s allowed to talk shit about the Midwest unless they’ve lived in the Midwest or really are from the Midwest. I hate it when people talk shit. When I first moved to New York, and told people I went to state school in Indiana, and I was meeting people who went to Bennington, the New School, NYU, etc., everyone’s eyes would just glaze over. And I found that to be so elitist and annoying. It’s still very real. It’s interesting to think about how many novels have characters from the Midwest who come to the city and try to remake themselves. That’s such an eternal genre for some reason. I don’t feel I’ve tried to remake myself or whatever. I’m interested in the dichotomy and tension of people who move back and forth, or from one place to another—who feel scarred and made, in both positive and negative ways, by growing up in a place like Indiana or Illinois or Ohio. And a lot of the people that I have met in New York, a lot of my close friends, are people who are from the Midwest. Sort of ironically, we’ve sort of come together as an enclave.

The shared trauma brings us together.

There’s that Vonnegut quote where he has something about, “You can go anywhere and find a Hoosier.” I feel that’s a little true of Midwesterners, as well as people from Indiana.

And I think Herculine is partly about that… It’s about leaving to find home and realizing that there’s a part of home that’s still left behind, or trying to find a new piece of it. Going back and forth, and being caught in the strangeness of it all.

I mean, you could say [the narrator] is possessed by the Midwest just as much as by demons.

The real demon is just the State of Indiana.

Makes sense.

 

 

sch 10/17