So your piece was rejected? You’re not alone. We’ve all been there. After licking your wounds what should you do?
CRAFT: The Five Responses to Rejection and How to Craft Your Own by Estelle Erasmus
Category: Articles
INTERVIEW: Susan Mailer, author of In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer
I decided to write a personal vignette that would shed light on an unknown aspect of my father’s life. Immediately, I remembered those months Dad had spent in Mexico when I was a small child and had taken me to the bullfights
Review: The Red Ribbon: A Memoir of Lightning and Rebuilding After Loss by Nancy Freund Bills
The memoir’s inciting incident is the death of her estranged husband who is struck by lightning while boating.
REVIEW: All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom edited by Deborah Santana
Editor Deborah Santana compiles work from an ensemble of invigorating women.
Review: The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out by William Dameron
William Dameron writes, “Conversion therapy doesn’t always occur at a facility. Often, it takes place at the dining-room table.”
Review: Gray Is The New Black: A Memoir of Self-Acceptance by Dorothy Rice
Allowing her hair to go grey is only the beginning of Rice’s quest for self-acceptance and self-forgiveness.
WRITING LIFE: Still Here by Sharon Van Epps
My agent is breaking up with me. Immediately I felt embarrassed at the thought
CRAFT: Making yourself a character in your story by Nicole Breit
In this craft article we’ll look at ways you can nurture the split between person and persona.
Review: Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered – The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
In their dual memoir, dubbed the first of its kind by its publisher, Kilgariff and Hardstark write openly about mental illness….
Review: Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
Life stories, while different for everyone, sometimes share something in common.
