Most of my career has just been about figuring out how to unite my love of reading, writing, drawing, monkeying around on the computer, and playing music.
Interview: Austin Kleon, author of Show Your Work
Category: Articles
Review: Under Magnolia by Frances Mayes
“One reason I felt immediately at home in Tuscany was that certain strong currents of life reminded me of the South.”
The Writing Life: Girls with Pens — Can we ‘Lean In’ and ‘Let it Go’? by Lisa Ahn
What could a pair of Disney princesses and the COO of Facebook have in common? In a Venn diagram of girls and words, of rebellion and equality, there’s more overlap than you’d imagine.
Interview: Sonja Livingston, Author of Ghostbread
… Sonja Livingston is a poet at heart; so it is no surprise that her tales of growing up poor as one of seven children brought up by a single mother are written in comparatively short bursts…
Review: The World Almanac for Kids 2014
As a homeschooling parent to a precocious second-grader, I was thrilled to have the chance to review The World Almanac for Kids (World Almanac, 2014) with my daughter.
Interview: Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins, editors of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre
Several terms have been used to identify this genre: nonfiction, contemporary nonfiction, or creative nonfiction – a term that some reject.
Review: Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing by Daniel Robinson
Review by Kacy MuirOne of my favorite novels and films happens to be one in the same — Big Fish —written by Daniel Wallace and John August, respectively. The reasons are many, but two stand out in particular. Together, both mediums aspire to inspire the art of storytelling and evoke romanticism in a swift, but…
Craft: How to Be a Writer by Risa Nye
Where will your writing life take you? If you don’t sit down, get started and roll the die by submitting your work, you’ll never know.
The Writing Life: Getting Naked by Jim Gray
In November of 2011, armed with a notebook and stress-induced diarrhea, I entered my inaugural writing workshop…
Interview: Elizabeth Scarboro, author of My Foreign Cities: A Memoir
My husband died at the end of January. There. I said it. … Still off-balance and only weeks after his passing, I discovered an essay, online, written Elizabeth Scarboro.
