Marion Blackburn

writer

Info (at) marionblackurn.net
Greenville, NC
ph: 252.931.0728

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WELCOME. Marion Blackburn is a freelance and creative writer. She is presently working on a novel, The Curing Season, along with short stories. She also serves as the District 3 representative for the Greenville City Council.

photo by David Speranza

I completed my first marathon at Medoc Mountain State Park. Read "Existential Thoughts from a First Marathon."

Excerpt from my novella, "Unsealed," is below.

Cover story on the new ECU School of Dental Medicine in East magazine

Janice Faulker in the summer 2011 issue ofEast magazine

Jim Hunt's Ms. Fix-It

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New public radio commentary

My Running Year on Public Radio East

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Battlefield surgeon, back from the war

Cover story, East Magazine

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Novella in progress: "Unsealed"

Into the place between sleep and awareness came details, images, feelings and signs sent to this day from the one before. I am Delia Legrace. This is my bedroom. It is Wednesday. That is my alarm clock. What did it mean, Delia Legrace. What time it is, what day is it. Who is here, asleep upstairs. I am alone. A dog is breathing, a cat is at my feet. The sunlight is crisp, like autumn. What is the date.

The thoughts she fell asleep to, music and colors in her mind, sadness and anger, transcendence and weightlessness, left their traces, impressions she would have to figure out. Maybe. Maybe this morning. She would lie still until she knew. Clearly. As clearly as a morning long ago when it was summer and she grabbed seersucker shorts and shirt and ran down the stairs without thought.

-- from "Unsealed," by Marion Blackburn

The Curing Season

A first section of my novel in progress has been posted as a pdf. Email comments to info@marionblackburn.net.I am working on the second installment.

FICTION DAILY. The excerpt also appears on my blog.

MAYBERRY IS ON FACEBOOK!

Mayberry the Walker Hound

Mayberry is a genuine Tennessee Treeing Walker Hound. A noble, gentle fella, he loves children -- and is loved by them. He was rescued by Friends of the Pitt County Animal Shelter, treated for heart worms and waited one year for someone to take him home. But until I came along, most passersby never gave him a second glance ...

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Atamasco lily at Medoc

Hiking at Medoc Mountain...

KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI

This Polish director's works probe human nature, give us sadness and joy, always shadowed by melancholy ...

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Visit His Holiness the Dalai Lama online

www.dalailama.com

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Audio Postcard from Public Radio East: Marion and her sister run in the Komen Race for the Cure

COMMENTARY: Strangers in the Night

A feature profile on the late writer David Foster Wallace examines the complexity of this serious writing talent for our times. ______________________________________________

JACK KEROUAC: THE MYTHICAL SCROLL

As part of his own journey as a writer, Kerouac dispensed with traditional narrative process and in a single burst of literary activity wrote the novel in about three weeks in 1951. He typed it onto 120-feet of taped paper sheets; together his manuscript forms a a scroll that reflects the seeming infinity of blacktop leading west. Legend has mistakenly registered it as an episode of first-draft brilliance, but Kerouac had been working on drafts for years. Nicknamed “Memory Babe” because of his prodigious recall, he likely had the entire novel scripted in his mind before sitting at the typewriter that April day in New York. Indeed, he obsessed over writing. The act of writing, like Sal’s act of traveling, allowed Kerouac to find the ethereal.

-- from an article by Marion Blackburn

The 120-foot long manuscript of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was on view in New York, along with notebooks, novel outlines, notes, paintings and sketches that show Kerouac's complexity as a writer and artist. U-Tex Austin exhibit here. Image: New York Public Library, Berg Collection, Jack Kerouac Archive. Reproduced courtesy of John G. Sampas, legal representative of the estates of Jack and Stella Kerouac. 

MYTHIC MILES Part One & Part Two

PUBLIC RADIO EAST diary of Kerouac in New York

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ON THE SAFFRON PATH Special section A three-part audio diary of Marion's journey to see the Dalai Lama in Atlanta, which aired on Public Radio East. Download here.

A blossom, a man, a promise

These are low-resolution pdfs of the article, "A Blossom, a Man, a Promise - Seeing His Holiness the Dalai Lama Brings Hope" which appeared Jan. 6, 2008 in The Daily Reflector.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Audio from His Holiness, 14th Dalai Lama

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My mother, the stripper

Raising a Cannon from Queen Anne's Revenge

Former blog is here

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Marion Blackburn is a writer whose creative projects include short stories, essays and a novel in progress. Professional projects include magazine and feature writing, brochures, marketing and narratives. She serves as a member of the Greenville, N.C. City Council

For short stories, click here

For Fiction Daily, click here

A special section on Jack Kerouac

A special section on His Holiness the Dalai Lama

For professional projects, click here

For Public Radio features, click here

For Marion Blackburn's City Council Web site, click here

At Wolf Rock, Elkin, N.C. ____________________