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Elisa Korenne

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Elisa Korenne (Korentayer) is an award-winning performer, songwriter, and writer. She was educated at Yale University and the London School of Economics. Her memoir Hundred Miles to Nowhere will be released by North Star Press in June 2017.

Her writing has appeared in The Midwest Prairie Review, Lake Region Review, Red Dirt Review, Poetica Magazine, The Talking Stick, Lake Country Journal, Ultimate Christmas, Northwoods Woman, The New York Mills Herald, East Ottertail Focus, KAXE radio’s On the Beat, and numerous blogs. She has been recognized as a finalist for the Freddie Award for Writing Excellence (Mystery Writers of America, Florida), a finalist for the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor program, a finalist in Writer’s Advice Flash Prose Co
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Elisa Korenne I don't believe in writer's block. Don't get me wrong: I have moments and days when I have nothing to say and don't feel like I can write a dang word.…moreI don't believe in writer's block. Don't get me wrong: I have moments and days when I have nothing to say and don't feel like I can write a dang word. But I know it's Resistance (see Steven Pressfield's War of Art), and I write anyway. Even if it's the sentence "I don't have anything to say" repeated three hundred times. I keep writing. Or if that's absolutely impossible, I change things up: I make a collage, I use a notebook and a colored pen, or I write down all the things that I'm scared of, or that are pissing me off, until suddenly, words come out that have nothing to do with what I'm scared of or what is pissing me off. Or, even better, the words about the things that are scaring me or pissing me off turn into a vital piece of prose, authentic and real, and then become the basis of a scene. (less)
Elisa Korenne The moment of flow when you disappear and the writing consumes you. When you become a vessel, and feel like a fully-fledged part of the onward swirl o…moreThe moment of flow when you disappear and the writing consumes you. When you become a vessel, and feel like a fully-fledged part of the onward swirl of the universe. When all your own little niggling problems disappear, and there is only the present moment, the words, the ideas, the vast magic of what is coming through you. (less)
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Elisa won Minnesota History Center’s Flash Mystery Contest

My short story “John Olaf Todahl and the Petrified Man” won the Minnesota History Center’s Flash Mystery Contest.

It is based on the live story I tell in my Minnesota’s Ordinarily Unsung Concert about the Petrified Man of Bloomer, Minnesota. I added the perspective of real-life newspaperman and illustrator John Olaf Todahl, who had an interesting life himself, and then died on a Viking Ship re-enac

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