Linda Rader Overman is leading a creative writing workshop at Thousand Oaks Library

April 1, 2023 Saturday at 3PM --Appearing at Thousand Oaks Library and will be leading a creative workshop for beginning and aspiring writers. Teens 16+ are welcome to join.

Do join us!!

THE LAST THING I WISHED I SAID-Linda Overman has a new podcast THE LAST THING I WISHED I SAID listen to interview with Prof Mary Marca

Prof Mary Marca: Click here on the first episode of THE LAST THING I WISHED I SAID , Linda speaks to retired Professor of Creative Writing Mary Marca, who taught at California State University, Northridge for twenty years. Mary shares her grief about the loss of her mother, Mabel Mary Pugh lovingly known as Molly, and the helplessness of a sudden death.

 

Linda Rader Overman shares The Last Thing I Wished I Said-Linda Overman's new podcast is coming have a quick listen!

My Podcast is coming have a listen to the trailer 

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Linda Rader Overman continue to be very proud of her students' critical film reviews of Mustang by director, Deniz Gamze Ergüven.

@CSUN 

Winner Linda Nichols Joseph Award- 2021

Winner Thomas Matthew Magness Graduate Memorial Fund -2022

So proud of this work my colleagues published Ch 15 in as it is such an important read: The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority

My former CSUN colleagues  

 

Jennifer K. Johnson and 

Nicole Warwick  

who are now at University of California, Santa Barbara just published this article 

"Reconsidering the Status of Contingency: Are These Really the Trenches?"

Lecturer. Assistant Professor. To those outside of academia, there is little to no
recognition of the distinction between these academic ranks. But within U.S. ac-
ademic circles, there is a huge disparity between them in terms of what they con-
vey about job security, salary, privileges, and respect. 

The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority

Edited by Natalie M. Dorfeld
Copy edited by Karen P. Peirce. Designed by Mike Palmquist.

This edited collection, the first in the Practices & Possibilities series to be published in its Voices from the Field section, offers a rich set of narratives by writing instructors who are serving or have worked in contingent positions. Intended for anyone considering a career in the humanities, The Invisible Professor seeks to reach individuals in three phases of their careers: those thinking of entering the profession, those knee-deep in it and looking for ways to improve conditions, and those who have vacated academic positions for more humane alternative tracks.

As academia comes to a crossroads, with a disheartening shift towards a more disposable business model, multiple solutions are desperately needed. Faculty members in contingent positions are the new faculty majority on college campuses, and they are most likely the first professors students will meet. They deserve respect and a livable wage.

 Love these Professors who are fabulous teachers and scholars and dear friends!!

 My colleague Professor Mary Marca, MFA (from CSUN) publishes much of her wonderful work --short stories that she publishes quite often--enough to make me jealous on her website Mary McCann Marca, Writer

along with her blog musings the link is on her website.  I am recommending this as a wonderful read!

Linda Rader Overman is still proud of that poem from 1991 that expresses much of what was and what is

I published this poem back in 1991---how little I knew that much of it would remain so relevant in my life-still.  

Thank you Bombshelter Press and Jack Grapes for your classes and your wisdom so long ago.

I don’t want to go on living