James B. Wells
This past Friday, I graduated with my MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Kentucky University’s Bluegrass Writers Studio. Although I received my Ph.D. in Research around thirty years ago, this degree has been more challenging for several different reasons. Over three decades of research and ten years of writing have been involved in writing this […]
I tell people I’ll never be the writer worthy of telling the fascinating story behind my odyssey to find the truth behind my father’s mysterious and still classified death in Vietnam…but I’m trying! I recently found out I’m a finalist in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Emerging Writers Award. Given the judging is done by an […]
At the last BlueGrass Writers Studio open-mic of the semester, I read an excerpt from my book about the Air American Reunion I attended in 2017. What I learned there corroborated my archival and field research supporting my theory about what really happened on my father’s last flight.
Today, another milestone in my odyssey has been completed. I’ve submitted my thesis, an investigative personal narrative I’ve been writing for the last decade, to my MFA in Creative Writing committee at Eastern Kentucky University’s Bluegrass Writers Studio. Although I won’t officially graduate till I defend this summer, there’s no time for a well-deserved break […]
At last night’s Bluegrass Writers Studio virtual open-mic, I read an excerpt from my book describing an amazing discovery I made at the Air America Archives. My reading starts at the 45:13 time mark. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=search&v=482773933397497
At last night’s virtual open-mic of the Bluegrass Writers Studio, I read a draft of my book’s preface, beginning at the 6:40 time mark The book has been in the making for decades It feels good to know my father and I are in the home stretch https://www.facebook.com/BluegrassWritersStudio/videos/467756748167012
The past year I’ve been preoccupied with wrapping up my MFA in Creative Writing coursework and finishing the first complete draft of my thesis/book. The fall 2021 semester was particularly tough, teaching four classes, one, a new graduate course on Whistleblowing in Organizations, and taking my last two MFA courses while revising my thesis. After […]
I was pretty excited on the night of December 8 to be the guest speaker for the Lexington Chapter of Financial Executives International (FEI). FEI, a member-service-oriented organization, advances the success of financial executives through information, community & advocacy, and has a non-profit affiliate, that conducts objective research & education programs. After doing a half-hour virtual presentation on my research and writing, FEI’s members asked me all sorts of intriguing questions. They have already invited me to come back and do an in-person presentation once the pandemic is over.
Hi everyone! Thanks for beginning your journey with me as I uncover clues in the hundreds of letters my father left and learn about his life and subsequent death in South Vietnam.
James B. Wells