So your piece was rejected? You’re not alone. We’ve all been there. After licking your wounds what should you do?
CRAFT: The Five Responses to Rejection and How to Craft Your Own by Estelle Erasmus
Category: 2019 Issues
INTERVIEW: Susan Mailer, author of In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer
I decided to write a personal vignette that would shed light on an unknown aspect of my father’s life. Immediately, I remembered those months Dad had spent in Mexico when I was a small child and had taken me to the bullfights
Review: The Red Ribbon: A Memoir of Lightning and Rebuilding After Loss by Nancy Freund Bills
The memoir’s inciting incident is the death of her estranged husband who is struck by lightning while boating.
REVIEW: All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom edited by Deborah Santana
Editor Deborah Santana compiles work from an ensemble of invigorating women.
Review: The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out by William Dameron
William Dameron writes, “Conversion therapy doesn’t always occur at a facility. Often, it takes place at the dining-room table.”
Review: Gray Is The New Black: A Memoir of Self-Acceptance by Dorothy Rice
Allowing her hair to go grey is only the beginning of Rice’s quest for self-acceptance and self-forgiveness.
Everything Looks Normal by Rhea DeRose-Weiss
These are the ways in which we fail the Baltimore Harbor aquarium test: One, we despise children.
Immortal Acts by Paul Van Dyke
I believe in the moon landing. That while the rest of the world gazed into the sable night, spacemen bounded untethered of planetary gravity.
Smoke by Mandie Caroll
I don’t like football, but I want my dad to like me, so I stay. I am six.
Another A&P (My Apologies to John Updike) by Diane Gottlieb
In walks Lenny, a big hulk of a man in his forties, I think, but it’s hard for me to tell.
