Thursday, September 8, 2016
I spent my summer vacation with a bunch of really amazing people named Evee the Pokemon and Super Fantastic Bubble Plastic and Scrounge and Lady Lazuli in the Hudson Valley region of New York. We ate a lot of hippy food, drew until our hands hurt and then laughed and read aloud and laughed […]
This summer, I have been awash in the fiction world. At least, as awash as I ever get, which is probably a bit more like a Wet Nap dabbed lightly over my brow. In June, I attended Writer Camp in Indiana once more. Last year’s was so magical that I couldn’t resist applying, especially […]
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Tagged "Lower Midnight", "Where She Went", Best American Short Stories, Dan Chaon, flash fiction, Jean Thompson, Lynda Barry, Paper Darts, Per Contra, Roxane Gay, Submissions, Where She Was, Writers conference
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I have at least five friends who have their own Wikipedia entries. I think at some point, I’d like a legitimate Wikipedia entry of my very own. I would also like to specify that I would like it to be about literary things and not because I tried to assassinate Elmo the Muppet or fell […]
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I’m having what The Boy calls “a crisis of confidence”. I don’t know that I would call it that. I think I would call it that I sometimes hate writing. And it’s not even that I hate writing. One doesn’t write for a living and then write after the work day is complete if one […]
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Tagged Barrelhouse, Billets Doux, Dan Chaon, Jen Larsen, Kylos Brannon, Lynda Barry, Paper Darts, Roxane Gay, Submissions, Tim Pratt, Wendy McClure
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I’m a bad blogger. For those folks who won the contest (Ainsley, who chose Black Clock; Angela, who chose a Narrative VIP backstage pass; and Dawn, who chose a subscription to the very wonderful Missouri Review), you should hopefully all have received your first and perhaps even second issues by now and are enjoying the […]
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Tagged Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, awp, Barrelhouse, Black Clock, Bull, Chicago, Dan Chaon, Jean Tompson, Jennifer Egan, Kate Harding, Liam Callanan, Loretta Clodfelter, Lynda Barry, Margaret Atwood, Missouri Review, Molly Backes, Narrative Magazine, Pank, Paper Darts, Sun Yung Shin, Tom Williams, Wendy McClure
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Oh you guys, the Indiana University Writers Conference was so awesome. I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome it was. Everyone was awesome. Awesome. It’s an overused word, but I mean it in the truest sense: I am full of awe. Every day, I took a tiny little cranky elevator down to the […]
Happily, my run of fifteen flights in three weeks is over and I’m home for the next nine days, when I leave for a writer conference. As you know, I have been making an effort to go to at least one writer’s thingy a year, as I miss the snobby no-pointedness of graduate school. This […]