Image:Navy Blue Stripes Earlier this month, I attended a writers’ conference called The Home School. This specific iteration was located in Miami, FL (which was an amazing change of scenery from Laramie). The Home School is a fairly new writers’ conference having had its first conference, I believe, in 2014. Its co-founder, and also my… Continue reading Writing Prompts: Navigating Personal Process
"Let me tell you what I wish I'd known ..." - Lin-Manuel Miranda I have one more semester before I am released into the wild again. So for those of you who haven't started your program yet, this is for you. When I started, I thought I wasn't good. I was not as good… Continue reading Advice from the Final Semester
I read stories. A lot of them. I am the sole fiction editor for Reservoir, and I read (and edit copy) for Raleigh Review, an up-and-coming litmag founded by MFA alums from North Carolina State University. I've read for a couple other journals in the past, and been a preliminary reader for a couple of… Continue reading Some Myths About Your Litmag Submissions
Image: Ignacio B. Peña Two things. Thing one. On Christmas Eve, I walked the markets in Edinburgh alone. I had a German sausage and stood against a corner street lamp watching people walk around until the markets closed at 8, until they asked for everyone to leave because it’s Christmas Eve and the Christmas market… Continue reading Home for the Holidays
Back to Tuscaloosa. Back to work. (Well, sort of. Back to thinking about work. Back to knowing I should do work. Back to planning to do work sometime soon. Back to getting drinks at Loosa Brews?) This time last year, I had just submitted my MFA applications and was trying to find ways to distract… Continue reading Location, Location, Location
