The conclusion of an interaction with your doctor, or any doctor, or any other medical professional, is often likely to be a bill you don’t understand. We hope it would instead be your good health, but I must leave that…
Guest Post: Storytelling: What a Beautiful Word by Mathieu Cailler
The only job I ever had in which no bellyaching existed was when I was nine, and I’d ride my bike around town, knocking on doors, asking neighbors if they needed any work done in their homes. (I watched a…
Guest Post: Let’s All Be Quiet and Talk About How Alice Munro Destroyed the Cathedral or, Some Observations on the State of Short Fiction in 2016 by Patrick E. Gabbard
It’s ironic that since Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013 after being hailed as “…a master of the contemporary short story,” that the popularity of the form appears to be on the decline, as the legions of…
Review: The Coachman Rat: Goodbye, Cinderella
The Coachman Rat: Goodbye Cinderella. A Review by Stephanie Vannello Not too long ago I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, a minor in Writing, and over twenty plus books from the university’s library. Each month the library randomly…
Guest Post: No One Reads Anymore? by John Abbott
No one reads anymore. It seems I’ve been hearing this complaint for years. I heard it from the professors I had in grad school. I hear it from some of my writer friends. I hear it from my colleagues at…
Guest Post: Breaking News, Breaking News by Gene Goldfarb
If you are unfortunate enough to find yourself with nothing better to do during the election season than tuning in for some news, you might end up at CNN. This is not a recommendation, far from it. I propose to…
Guest Post: The Tiny Writing Lifestyle by Diane D. Gillette
Lately, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of tiny houses. Tiny is the current craze in the housing industry which means there are a plethora of tiny house TV shows to feed my obsession — which is anything but tiny!…
Guest Post: Inner Structures by Seth Jani
At twenty-eight I have quietly, and without much explaining, maneuvered my life into a position where I can easily focus on writing. This means I currently work a slightly-better than minimum-wage service industry job with limited hours and as few…
Guest Post: Creating a Handmade Life by Shavawn M. Berry
When I finished my Master’s degree eighteen years ago, I had this Virginia Woolf-ish daydream of living in a cottage overlooking the sea – windows open to the salty air – companionship and solitude in perfect measure. I dreamed of…
Guest Post: A Life in Poetry Ain’t for Sissies by Peter Serchuk
Now into my sixth decade of life and my fourth decade as a serious writer of poems, I can say without hesitation that my life in poetry remains the most exhilarating, depressing, titillating, frustrating, constructive, destructive, enlightening, and numbing experience…
Guest Post: Revision: Knowing When to Swing the Darlings-Axe by Allie Gove
One of the first things that really struck me to hear from a writing teacher was this: “there is no good writing, only good re-writing.” As a first semester student in my first Intro to Creative Writing class (because yes,…
Guest Post: Writing Outreach: Why It Matters by Jen Knox
The value of creative writing is something that I think about on a daily basis. If my time and energy were depicted in a pie chart, writing would represent the fattest slice. When I’m not writing, teaching writing, or coaching…