Dana sachs wilmington nc jobs

  • The House on Dream Street tells the story of three journeys to Vietnam, in which Dana draws her reader deeply and intimately into the family household.
  • Dana Sachs' latest novel, The Secret of the Nightingale Palace, is available at bookstores, online and throughout Wilmington.
  • Dana Sachs has written about Vietnam for twenty years.

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    EPISODE 1386: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to ALL ELSE FAILED author Dana Sachs about the the unlikely volunteers at the heart of the migrant aid crisis in Greece

    Dana Sachs was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent her childhood there. Throughout those years, she thought Memphis was the most boring city in the world, but she changed her mind when she left for college and realized that not everyone got to grow up along the Mississippi River, tramping through Overton Park, eating peach cobbler at the Buntyn Café, and listening to B.B. King, Alex Chilton, and the Panther Burns. Obviously, it takes traveling far away to realize the things you most love about home. Since leaving Memphis, Dana has learned to love (and happily reside in) other complex and captivating cities, including San Francisco, Hanoi, Budapest, and Wilmington, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, Todd Berliner, and their two sons. Dana began her writing career as a journalist and she has pub

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    Jobs & Internships

    Audubon North Carolina (habitat conservation)
    Needs writers for newsletter/Web site.
    Email Walker Golder, deputy director, or call him at 910.686.7527. He will want to meet you and see your writing samples.

    Brooklyn Arts Center at St. Andrews (arts and events)
    516 North 4th Street
    Wilmington, NC 28401
    Email Richard Leder, Executive Director, or call him at 910.538.2939. He will want to interview you and see writing samples.

    CFCC Wilson Center
    Internships are available in Community Engagement, marknadsföring and Operations, Production Services, Social and Digital Media, Technical Production, and Ticket Central.
    Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College
    Students may also contact our Director of Operations, LaRaisha Dionne directly and email her their cover letter and resume (including the position they are interested in).

    Cape Fear River Watch (conservation group, based in Wilmington)
    Needs writers for Web site and other group publications.
    Email Kemp Burdette

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    Childhood memories inspire Sachs' novel

    How does a novel get born? For Dana Sachs, the moment of conception for her latest book came on a "long, long, long drive" from Los Angeles to Wilmington.

    Her husband, Todd Berliner, was taking a faculty job with the new film studies program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Sachs would enter its Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing.

    As the miles ticked off, Sachs found herself thinking about a childhood friend's mother, who happened to be a funeral director. Morticians "freak out" some people, "but their lives are so normal," Sachs said. "They connect with so many other lives."

    At the time, Sachs and Berliner were also thinking about starting their own family. "I tend toward negative fantasies," she said, "so I was already 10 steps ahead. What if we had to adopt?"

    Those threads slowly wove themselves together, into a story about a childless mortician from Wilmington who travels to Vietnam to adopt a toddler. Even