“Learn the rules, so you can break them.” It’s an adage that’s so well-worn in the creative writing community that it is a cliché
CRAFT: Keep Your Comma Splices by Jennifer Chong Schneider
Category: Articles
WRITING LIFE: I Found My Writing Self on Zoom by Aimee Christian
…it was like a Japanese restaurant in which everyone shrieks “Irasshaimase!” every time the front door opens.
Interview: Gretchen Cherington, Author of Poetic License
Cherington’s memoir explores the challenges of self-expression when one grows up in the home of a prominent poet…
REVIEW: Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued (translated by Samuel Rutter)
One of our first natural reactions when we hear of a pre-meditated murder is to ask a simple, one-word question: “Why?”
Interview: Eileen Cronin, Author of Mermaid
Had we never had the Trump era, I’d probably still be writing essays like I used to, working to conceal my anger…
WRITING LIFE: How I Renewed My Enthusiasm for Writing by Erica M. Dolson
I started to watch Jane the Virgin during a summer when my writing had become monotonous…
CRAFT: For Instructors – Workshop Dynamics in the Zoom Room by Michelle Levy
Does anyone else freshen their breath before a Zoom meeting? I do.
REVIEW: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The first chapter of World of Wonders… opens with a Catalpa Tree in western Kansas. The tree is both literal and metaphor.
REVIEW: Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina
I read fewer books this year than any year of my adulthood. But then a poet recommended Of Color, by Jaswinder Bolina, on social media.
Review: A Silenced Voice: The Life of Journalist Kim Wall by Ingrid & Joachim Wall, Translated by Kathy Saranpa
…a 30-year-old female journalist disappeared beneath the sea, trapped aboard a man-made submarine…
