Time seems to be passing in strange ways; it’s somehow going both quickly and slowly simultaneously. It’s hard to believe we’re more than half-way through 2021, when 2020 felt like it would last forever — and for the first few…
Just a quick note about two new personal essays that have been accepted by publications. My very short flash essay “Swallow” has been published in the online literary journal pioneertown. You can read the essay here (my bio is longer…
First things first: I hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and well during these challenging times. The light appears to be at the end of the tunnel. Let’s keep on keepin’ on until we all get through this together.…
Seven months ago I sent a flash piece I wrote to a literary journal. I wrote it during a weekend writing workshop with the wonderful group Bending Genres. Today I got a note from the editors saying they really like…
It appears that GoDaddy.com did some royal messing up of my website. It’s as if I’ve gone back in time; what you’re seeing is a year-old version without any of the blog posts or content I uploaded since the fall…
I have never met Erika Dreifus in person, but I feel as if I know her. That may be because we’ve communicated quite a lot in recent years about writing and book-related news. We are connected by certain things; my…
In today’s Writers in the Trenches interview, we tackle a genre we haven’t discussed before in detail – historical fiction. Joan Schweighardt’s new novel, Gifts for the Dead, takes place in the early 20th century in Hoboken, NJ. It’s the…
Every interview in this series is unique and provides insight into a writer who is working on craft. Some interviewees have had many publications in literary journals, some none. Some have published books, others haven’t. Some I know personally, and…
In one of her answers to my questions below, poet Alison Stone talks about poems having “two images or stories that play off each other and add up to more than the sum of the parts.” In a funny way, our…