JACK THE HACK: Expat authors, time to build a great and powerful blog (2/3)
The expat experience Jack Scott and his partner, Liam, had in the Turkish port town of Bodrum—they were seeking sanctuary from a pressured existence in London—proved literally to be something to write...
View ArticleAnd the November 2013 Alices go to … these 5 international creatives
If you are a subscriber to our weekly newsletter, Displaced Dispatch, you’re already in the know. But if you’re not (and why aren’t you? off with your head!), listen up. Every week, when that esteemed...
View ArticleJACK THE HACK: Expat authors, once you have a blog, it’s schmooze it or lose...
Jack Scott and his partner, Liam, set up home in the Turkish port town of Bodrum in the late aughts. They were seeking sanctuary from a pressured existence in London. In the event, the expat experience...
View ArticleTHE LADY WHO WRITES: Expats, there may be a novel in your novel life!
Meagan Adele Lopez has always been on the move. By the time she was 12, she had lived in 12 places within the U.S. As a young adult, she moved to Paris and then Bristol, UK. She repatriated to the U.S....
View ArticleDIARY OF AN EXPAT WRITER: Testing one, two, three…Can anybody hear me?
Today we welcome a brand new columnist, the up-and-coming author Shannon Young. This past summer, Shannon announced she’d cut 18 inches off her hair, quit her day job to become a full-time writer, and...
View ArticleBOOKLUST, WANDERLUST: Lawrence Osborne’s haunting tale of expats and travel...
Attention displaced bookworms! Our book review columnist, Beth Green, is back. An American who lives in Prague, Beth mixes booklust with wanderlust in equal measures, which gives her just the right...
View ArticleBOOKLUST, WANDERLUST: The story of Jo Parfitt and her expat press, Summertime...
Attention displaced bookworms! As our book review columnist, Beth Green, an American expat in Prague (she is also an Adult Third Culture Kid), is still honeymooning (literally—congratulations, Beth!),...
View ArticleBECAUSE WE (ALMOST) MISSED IT: Best of expat nonfiction 2015
As some readers may recall, I posted, at the end of January, a “best of” list of fiction works by, for, and about expats and other international creatives that came out in 2015. I know, I know, it...
View ArticleWORLD OF WORDS: The travail of travel abroad with a group of middle schoolers...
What is it like to tour France with a bunch of American middle schoolers? It involves travel, for sure, but also no small amount of travail, as Marianne Bohr, who besides being a writer is a teacher of...
View ArticleExpat, repat, and otherwise displaced reactions to the 2016 US presidential race
Welcome to the Displaced Nation’s virtual panel discussion on the most recent presidential election in America. (Hey, we figured if the pundits could get it all wrong, we could all be pundits, too!)...
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