She made the drapes. Yards and yards of heavy silk graced the huge old windows, softly framing the view of the Tennessee River below.
CRAFT: Reflections on Roomy Writing by Stephanie Hunt
Category: Articles
WRITING LIFE: Sometimes You Get to Write a Book You Don’t Love Yet by Molly Howes
I considered turning down the offer, but I didn’t.
WRITING LIFE: On Staying Put and Finding Inspiration Within by Sherell Barbee
I use every inch of my house as a new muse.
CRAFT: Writing to Heal – A Primer by Yolande House
Describe a traumatic incident cinematically, as if it were playing out as a movie.
INTERVIEW: Robyn Ryle, Author of Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy
“If you’re born into contemporary American culture, though it’s changing a lot, the idea that there are only two genders is very much there.”
INTERVIEW: Cija Jefferson, Author of Sonic Memories and Other Essays
“I remember my Dad telling my sister and me, ‘You are a double minority, black and a woman, you gotta be twice as good to get half as much.’”
REVIEW: Black Man on the Titanic by Serge Bilé
The casual omission of Black people aboard the ill-fated ocean liner allows this book to offer a new perspective on historical Black figures…
REVIEW: From the Lake House by Kristen Rademacher
At first, Kristen is charmed by Jason’s stories of deer hunting and NASCAR, which she contrasts with her “preppy New England” schooling and love of Broadway
INTERVIEW: Miah Jeffra, Author of The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!
…what is truthful is that the way that you remember it is how you have been constructed, no matter how minutely or profound that was.
INTERVIEW: Melissa Valentine, Author of The Names of All the Flowers
This book saw me through active grief. It saw me through figuring out how to write. It saw me through finding my way into my story.
