PUBLICATIONS
Books
Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1989.
Editor, The New Left: A Collection of Essays. Boston: Porter Sargent Publisher, 1969.
Essays and Creative Nonfictions
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fur-Covered Teacup," Web Conjunctions (http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm), (forthcoming 2009).
"Memento Metro," Alaska Quarterly Review (forthcoming 2009).
"Rhapsody in Red," Jack Straw Writer's Anthology, Vol. 13 (forthcoming spring 2009).
"Nooks, Caverns, and Corners," CT (Connecticut) Review Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring 2009), 159-161.
"Elegy for Roz," Raven Chronicles Vol. 14, No. 1 (September 2008), 44-45. Reprinted in "Stories -- We Remember: Roslyn Zinn," Jewish Women's Archives ( http://jwa.org/).
"Solitude," The Gettysburg Review Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter 2008), 573-578.
"Polymer Persons," The American Scholar Vol. 77, No. 2 (Spring 2008), 108-112.
"Object and Ritual," Fourth Genre Vol. 10, No. 2 (Fall 2008), 55-58. This piece was nominated for a Pushcart.
"From Chaos to Creative Achievement: The Body of Work Inventory" (craft essay), January 2008, The Writer's Craft, It's About Time Writers Series website (http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com/).
"Dressing," Under the Sun Vol. 12, No. 1 (Summer 2007), 35-44. This piece was listed as one of the "Notable Essays of 2007" in The Best American Essays 2008 ed. by Adam Gopnik.
"A Bridge to Beauty," Seattle Metropolitan (August 2006), 44.
"Disappearances," Ontario Review No. 63 (Fall/Winter 2005-2006), 52-61.
"Genome Tome," The American Scholar Vol. 74, No. 3 (Summer 2005), 28-41. For this work The American Scholar, edited by Robert Wilson, was awarded a 2006 National Magazine Award for best feature writing. Reprinted in The Best American Magazine Writing 2006 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).
"The Musician," Under the Sun (2005), 71-74.
"Happy Ending," American Letters & Commentary (2004), 191-193.
"I Am Still Here," The Awakenings Review Vol. 3, No. 1 (Summer 2004), 79-83.
"Deja Vu," First Intensity No. 19 (2004), 173-177.
"Hildegard," The Chattahoochee Review Vol. 24, No. 1 (Fall 2003), 73-75.
"Goodbye, Goodbye," Ontario Review No. 59 (Fall/Winter 2003-2004), 144-151.
"Doing Nothing," Under the Sun Vol. 8, No. 1 (Summer 2003), 42-47.
"Inheritance," North Dakota Quarterly Vol. 70, No. 3 (Summer 2003), 51-55.
"Banjo: Six Tunes for Old Time's Sake," Fugue Vol. 24 (Winter 2002), 19-30. Reprinted in Tribute to Orpheus (Bellingham: Kearney Street Books, 2007), 182-193.
"Writing as Farming," North Dakota Quarterly Vol. 69, No 1 (Winter 2002), 31.
"Stonework," Passages North Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2002), 35-42.
"Too Late for Miss Roselli," in Pass/Fail (Akron, OH: Red Sky Books, Kleidon Publishing, 2001), 71-74.
"Archeology of Childhood," The Journal Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2001). 97-109. This work won The Journal's William Allen Creative Nonfiction Prize.
"Major Walter Long," Painted Bride Quarterly No. 64 (Fall/Winter 2000) http://www.webdelsol.com/pbq/.
"We Called Ourselves Sisters," in The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation ed. Ann Snitow and Rachel Blau DuPlessis (New York: Crown Books, 1998), 324-337.
"The 1913-1914 Colorado Fuel and Iron Strike with Reflections on the Causes of Coal Strike Violence" in A Model of Industrial Solidarity? The United Mine Workers of America, 1890-1990 ed. John H. M. Laslett (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996), 345-370.
"Fiction as Biography: the Character as a Window on the Human Condition," North Dakota Quarterly Vol. 59, No. 3 (Summer 1991), 201-207.
"The Voice of the Gun: Colorado's Great Coalfield War," Labor's Heritage (Oct. 1989), 4-23.
"The Women of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Strike, 1913-1914," in Women, Work, and Protest: A Century of U. S. Women's Labor History ed. Ruth Milkman. (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985), 64-85.
Mother Jones: Woman Organizer, and her Relations with Miners' Wives, Working Women, and the Suffrage Movement (40 page monograph). (Boston: South End Press, 1976).
Stories
"Living for Robert," The Chaffin Journal (2008), 145-156.
"Mrs. Morrissey," Raven Chronicles Vol. 11, No. 4 (2004), 62-64.
"The Visitor," Passages North Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2004), 127-137.
"Gasworks, Rust, and Smoke--Or, Notes for a Memoir--Or?" Southern Humanities Review Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer 1995), 251-252.
"The Letter," Widener Review No. 10 (October 1993), 71-82.
"Storm," The Southern Review Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer 1992), 587-597.
"The Old Man," North Dakota Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 4 (Fall 1989), 40-47.
"Solitude: A Love Story," North Dakota Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 3 (Summer 1989), 138-144.
"Snapshots: the Eastern Shore of Maryland," North Dakota Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 1 (Winter 1987), 93-99.
Poems
"Creatures," The Delmarva Review, Vol. 2 (2009), 50..
"Pisces," The Sow's Ear (forthcoming 2009).
"I Am the Light of the World," Aurorean, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2009), 28.
"Bridge Pose," and "History (Eleventh Street Bridge)," The Cincinnati Review Vol. 5, No. 2 (Winter 2009), 177, 178.
"Bascule Bridge" and "God-Trails," Southern Poetry Review Vol. 46, No. 1 (2008), 20, 21.
"The Red Queen," Earth's Daughters No. 72 (2008), 57.
"Terrible Bread," Ballard Street Poetry Journal (Winter 2008), 10. This poem was nominated for a Pushcart.
"Daughter" and "Dutch Interiors," The New Orphic Review Vol 11, No. 1 (Spring 2008), 18, 19.
"Queen of the Cut," Stringtown No. 10 (2007), 23.
"Words Referring to Unspeakable Events," Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets No. 9 (Seattle: Floating Bridge Press, 2006), 36.
"Elegy for Susanne," Cloven Sphere (anthology) (forthcoming autumn 2009).
"Hermit's Chronicle" and "Pacific Northwest Nature Poem," The Wandering Hermit Review No. 2 (Winter/Spring 2006), 146, 147.
"Red Hunger," Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets No. 8 (Seattle: Floating Bridge Press, 2005), 73.
"Decomposition," The Wandering Hermit Review No. 1 (Summer/Fall 2005), 44-45.
"Facing East," The Seattle Review Vol. 28, No. 2 (2006), 13.
"Journey," Facere Signs of Life Catalog (Seattle: Facere Art Jewelry Gallery, 2005), 8.
"Rune," and "How To Make a Poem," New Orphic Review Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall 2004), 49, 50. "Rune" was reprinted in Tattoos on Cedar: WPA Members' Anthology Vol. 2 (2006), 51.
"Thief of Fire," Literary Salt Vol. 1, No. 2 (February 2002) www.literarysalt.com.
"Reverie for Bachelard," Hidden Oak Poetry Journal (Summer/Fall 2000), 24.
"Beauty of Coal," "Aubade," "Psalm to Stones" (Reprint), PoetsWest Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2000), 38-40.
"Lantern Keeper," PoetsWest Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter 1999), 61. Reprinted in Night Bringing Feathers: Crow Poems (Bainbridge Island: Fly By Night Press, 2006).
"The First Mile," Roanoke Review Vol. 25, No. 2 (Fall 1999), 6.
"Paintings and Poems" exhibition (poems by Priscilla Long; paintings by Sandra Nickerson). The Cape Cod Conservatory, W. Barnstable, MA, May 1998; Habitude Gallery, Seattle WA, November 1998.
"Psalm to Stones," Open Bone Review Autumn 1998. Reprinted in PoetsWest Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2000), 38-40.
"On the High Cost of Keeping Horses," "Like Certain Old Women," "Nuclear Winter," "Snapshot: Seattle," "Legacy," "The Printer's Poem," "The Return of Geese," "Seascape: Narragansett Bay," "Summer Nights," "The Light at Arles," "Abstraction," "Realms of Desire," "Rhapsody," in Seattle Five Plus One: Poems. (Youngstown, Ohio: Pig Iron Press, 1995), pp. 65-77.
"Legacy," Exhibition Vol. 10, No. 2 (Summer 1995), 7.
"Dark Wings," Seattle Review Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 1993/Winter 1994), 52.
"House of Anger," Cumberland Poetry Review Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring 1993), 27-28.
"Woman at 47," Bellingham Review Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 1992), 44.
"Black Diamonds," Cincinnati Poetry Review No. 23 (Fall 1991), 30.
"Draft Resister," Seattle Review Vol. 14, No.2 (Fall 1991/Winter 1992), 5. Reprinted in The Poem and the World: an International Anthology. Seattle: The Literary Center, 1993.
"The Return," North Dakota Quarterly Vol. 56, No. 1 (Winter 1988), 94.
"Machine Operator's Sunday," Jam To-Day No. 12 (1986), 85.
"Anthracite," The Round Table Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1986), 28.
"Lurking," Crazy Quilt Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1986), 56.
"Nuclear Patchwork," Visions No. 20 (March 1986), n.p.
"Rain," Connecticut River Review Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring 1985), 21.
"To California," Mickle Street Review No. 7 (Oct. 1985), 83.
"River," Poetry Fullerton No. 4 (Autumn 1985). Reprinted in Kent County News (Chestertown, Md.), Feb. 26, 1987, 26.
Review Essays
"The Peacock Problem," Review of The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness by Joan Roughgarden, The American Scholar Vol. 78, No. 2 (Spring 2009), 118-121.
Review of The Face of Decline: The Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, Technology and Culture Vol. 48, No. 1 (January 2007).
"Worked Well With Others," Review of Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley, The American Scholar Vol. 75, No. 3 (Summer 2006), 121-123.
"New Genres and the Authors Who Cross Them," Review of The Nature of Home by Lisa Knopp, The Man Who Swam into History by Robert A. Rosenstone, and Woman Walking Ahead by Eileen Pollack, Michigan Quarterly Review Vol. 43, No. 3 (summer 2004), 454-466.
"Saints and Science," Review of The Lives of the Saints: Poems by Suzanne Paola, Women's Review of Books Vol. 20, No. 12 (September 2003).
Review of Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture by William Conlogue, Technology and Culture Vol. 44 (April 2003).
"Literate Obsessions," Review of The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson, Women's Review of Books Vol. 19, No. 1 (October 2001), 14.
Review of Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film ed. by William B. Thesing, Technology and Culture Vol. 42 (October 2001).
"PostColonial Poet," Review of The Lost Land: Poems by Eavan Boland, Women's Review of Books Vol. 16, No. 7 (April 1999), 17.
"Lost and Found," Review of I Can't Remember: Poems by Cynthia Macdonald, Women's Review of Books Vol. 15, No.7 (April 1998), 7-8.
"Jacqueline Barnett," Review of painting exhibition, Aorta: Contemporary Art and Culture Vol. 1, No. 4 (April/May 1997), 26.
"The Poetics of Passion," Review of The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser, Women's Review of Books Vol. 14, No.5 (February 1997), 10.
"Poet's-Eye View," Review of Nature: Poems Old and New by May Swenson, Women's Review of Books Vol. 12, No. 4 (January 1995).
"Mississippi Memories," Review of Trials of the Earth by Mary Hamilton, Women's Review of Books Vol. 10, No. 9 (June 1993), 8.
"Miner Classic," Review of The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina, Women's Review of Books Vol. 9, No. 12 (September 1992).
"Writing for Our Lives," Review of Critical Fictions: the Politics of Imaginative Writing ed. by Philomena Mariana, Women's Review of Books Vol. 9, No. 5 (February 1992), 1.
"A Diversity of Gifts," Review of No Peace at Versailles and Other Stories by Nina Barragan, Primary Colors and Other Stories by Barbara Croft, and From the Lanai and Other Hawaii Stories by Jessica K. Saiki, Women's Review of Books Vol. 8, No. 10-11 (July 1991).
Review of Emma Goldman in Exile by Alice Wexler, Women's Review of Books, Vol. 7, No. 3 (December 1989).
Review of The Correspondence of Mother Jones ed. Edward Steel, Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine Vol. 69, No. 4 (1986).
Review of Mother Jones: the Miner's Angel, A ortrait by Dale Featherling, Labor History (1974).
Miscellaneous
"Object and Setting," in Market Sense, online newsletter of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (http://www.pnwa.org) (October 2004).
Introduction to Nailed to the Sky: Poems by M. Anne Sweet (Seattle: Gazoobi Tales, 2003).
(with Staff of HistoryLink), "Virtue, Vice and Votes for Women," The Seattle Times November 7, 2000, p. B-7.
Jones, Mary Harris "Mother" in Reader's Companion to American History ed. by John Garraty and Eric Foner (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993).
"Ludlow Massacre" and "Jones, "Mother" Mary Harris (1836-1930) " in Encycopedia of the American Left ed. by Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1990).
What is Offset Printing? A Guide to the Preparation of Materials for Printing (Boston: Red Sun Press, 1984).
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2009 Jack Straw Writer's Program
2006 National Magazine Award (an American Society of Magazine Editors' "Ellie") for Best Feature writing, awarded to The American Scholar edited by Robert Wilson for "Genome Tome."
2003 Richard Hugo House Founder's Award
2002 Seattle Arts Commission, award for creative nonfiction
May 2001 William Allen Creative Nonfiction Award, The Journal Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring/summer 2001)
November 1997 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Inc., support for work on book (in progress) on women artists and creativity
November 1992 Seattle Arts Commission, award for short fiction.
September 1992 DeSimone Fellow (poetry and short fiction), Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY.
June 1988 Los Angeles Arts Council, award for short fiction.
March 1987 Research grant (coal mining history), The Rockefeller Archive Center of Rockefeller University.
1986 Berkshire Fellow (in history), Bunting Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
March 1986 Mary Roberts Rinehart Fund award for poetry.
EMPLOYMENT
1998-present Senior Editor, www.historyLink.org, the online encyclopedia of Washington state history.
1990-present Writing instructor. I teach writing at University of Washington Extension (1998-2005), Field's End (Bainbridge Island), Richard Hugo House (Seattle's writer's center), and the Taos Summer Writers Conference. I offer private classes in writing fiction and creative nonfiction. My classes emphasize craft: deep structure, language work, sophisticated sentencing (sentences that enact their meanings), as well as productivity and the intelligent and intense use of models of great writing.
1988-1990 MFA program at University of Washington, Seattle. I served as teaching assistant with sole responsibility for one class per quarter of the required undergraduate English composition course.
1984-1988. Freelance editing; grant and other support to complete history of coal mining (see publications).
1974-1984 Printer and co-manager of Red Sun Press (94 Green St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130).
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
1990s Poet and performer in the Seattle Five Plus One workshop and performance group
Talks and Panels
Field's End Writer's Conference
Seattle Free Lances
UW MFA reunion
Seattle Writers Association
Pacific Northwest Writers Conference
Northwest Bookfest
Rainier Club Women's Forum
Hugo House/Antioch University
Seattle Writers Club
Gig Harbor Writers' Conference
Open Books (on May Swenson)
Bunting Institute, Harvard Univ. (on coal mining)
Courses Taught
- Advanced Short Forms Seminar (1997-present)
- The Art of the Paragraph (Field's End, 2006)
- The Art of the Sentence (Hugo House)
- Becoming a More Effective Creator: From Reality to Dream with Strategy Inbetween (Hugo House, 2006)
- Writing to See (Art) Hugo House
- Four-session Craft Intensive (Nov./June)
- Nick O'Connell/Priscilla Long Weekend Intensive
- Personal Essay (UW Extension, 1998-2005)
- Becoming a Writer (Field's End)
- From Imitation to Imagination (Field's End)
- Writing Magic Realism and Contemporary Fairy Tale (Hugo House, 1997)
Memberships
The Author's Guild
PEN/West
AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs)
Artist Trust (Seattle)
Richard Hugo House
American Civil Liberties Union
Amnesty International
SELECTED POETRY READINGS
(All in Seattle unless otherwise noted.)
2008-1998
Poulsbohemian (Poulsbo)
Metaphysical Library
Burning Word Fest., WA Poets Assoc.(Whidby Is.)
Penny Cafe (Ballard)
Jewel Box Theatre, Poulsbo
Seattle City Council
Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Tacoma)
Red Sky (Globe Cafe)
Open Books
Lottie Mott's Cafe (Columbia City)
Third Place Books (Ravenna)
Lux Cafe (Belltown)
Otis Cafe (First Hill)
Still Life Coffeehouse (University District)
Frye Art Museum
Take Another Look Books (Columbia City)
Wit's End Bookstore (Fremont)
Seattle Public Library
Amy Burnett Gallery (Bremerton)
Brooklyn Avenue Bookshop
Elliott Bay Books
Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio)
Habitude Gallery (Paintings and Poems Exhibition)
Titlewave Books
Bumbershoot 1998
Redmond Arts Commission Wordsplosion Literary Arts Fair
Louisa's Cafe
1997-1991 Selected Performances with Seattle Five Plus One
Tacoma Art Museum
Redmond (WA) Public Library
Seattle Public Library
Poetry Circus (Center on Contemporary Art--CoCA)
Habitude Gallery
Bellevue Art Museum
University Bookstore
Eagle Harbor Books (Bainbridge Island)
Barnes & Noble (Bellevue)
Roadrunner Coffeehouse
Talking Book and Braille Library
Kirkland Arts Center
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Amy Burnett Gallery (Bremerton)
EDUCATION:
1990, MFA University of Washington
1967, BA Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
1961, High School, Moravian Seminary for Girls, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Work Sample: Creative Nonfiction
Contact Me:PriscillaLong@comcast.net