“…something bright and acidic that cut through the jumble of bitter pain.”
WRITING LIFE: Making Preserved Lemons Out of Lemons by Kat Read
Category: Writing Life
Our Writing Life column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
WRITING LIFE: Redefining Failure After a Brain Injury by Brooke Knisley
Before 2015, procrastination was the name of my game…
WRITING LIFE: Writing the Daughter by Amanda Moore
I watched with trepidation as she read, grimacing a bit and shifting in her seat.
WRITING LIFE: Still Here by Sharon Van Epps
My agent is breaking up with me. Immediately I felt embarrassed at the thought
WRITING LIFE: Teaching Myself to Revise by Tara DaPra
As a student in high school and college, I was plagued by both perfectionism and procrastination…
WRITING LIFE: Writing Out Loud by Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
I was breathless from the emotions talking about a traumatic event triggered, from the thrill of having produced my longest essay thus far…
WRITING LIFE: Writing Home by Jamie Beth Cohen
Those of us who left our hometowns as teenagers often feel a pull to return. Sometimes it’s family, or an old flame, other times it’s the place itself…
WRITING LIFE: A Book or Something by Meghan Beaudry
What I remember most about being sick with brain inflammation is the stillness that stretched on for months.
WRITING LIFE: Where Worlds Collide – Writing and Yoga by Jennifer Lang
During my first MFA residency at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I sat spellbound in Barbara Hurd’s lecture on paradox.
WRITING LIFE: How to Write About Trauma in a Safe(r) Way by Yolande House
When I first started writing about my childhood physical and emotional abuse in 2006, I did almost everything wrong.
