The other day I received a surprise email from Keith Hoerner, editor of The Dribble Drabble Review. By way of the fun graphic below, he announced that my short fiction piece, “By the Sea” had won a place in the…
A “Best Of” Mention is Always Nice
Writers in the Trenches: Jasen Sousa on Surviving, and Thriving
The very first time I heard Jasen Sousa read, I knew he was something special. Something different. His energy and rhythm were those of a young rapper, and his topic that day was a woman lost, a story from the…
Writers in the Trenches: Talking Writing and Photography with Pushcart-Nominated Essayist Jim Kennedy
Jim Kennedy’s creative nonfiction essay “End of the Line” is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I’ve ever had the privilege to read or teach. Published in the highly respected journal Creative Nonfiction, nominated for a Pushcart Prize,…
Writers in the Trenches: Lisa Romeo, author of STARTING WITH GOODBYE: A DAUGHTER’S MEMOIR OF LOVE AFTER LOSS
Can a relationship with a loved one survive — and even evolve — after the ultimate loss? This thought-provoking question is explored by Lisa Romeo in her new memoir, Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss (University of Nevada…
Writers in the Trenches: The Inimitable Michael Steinberg
Welcome to the second interview in my new series: “Writers in the Trenches.” Not every writer featured here will have a list of publishing accomplishments – I will showcase diverse writers who may or may not have been published, but…
An Interview with Poet Patricia Colleen Murphy
Today I have something special to offer: an interview with poet Patricia Colleen Murphy, whose new collection, Hemming Flames, won The May Swenson Poetry Award and has just been published by Utah State University Press. First some biographical notes: Patricia…
So long, AWP!
It’s Saturday afternoon and AWP is still going strong in Boston. From what I heard, more than 12,000 writers descended on the city for the event. What a crowd, what chaos, what eagerness! But now I’m back home — two…
Rejection: The Other Side
Somehow it wouldn’t be honest to celebrate the writing successes I’ve had without talking about the other side of the writer’s life: the dreaded rejections. Over the past few weeks, I’ve received several rejections from literary journals. They have informed…
News and Notes
It’s been a bit tough for me to keep up the blog this month. The last month of teaching Expository Writing at Framingham State has been a busy one. Because I was asked to teach just before the semester started,…
Congratulations, Meg Tuite!
Meg Tuite, author of Domestic Apparition and fiction editor at The Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press: An Online Artifact received two Pushcart Nominatins today (so far!). The first came from Thunderclap Press, which nominated Meg’s story “Fissure.” A…