When my son, Charley, first asked me what my job was, I turned away from my dual-screen iMac and told him I was a graphic designer. He stood silent, face blank.
The Writing Life: I’m in ‘Communications’ by Jim Gray
Category: Issues
Craft: Finding a Private Space and an Inner World by Risa Nye
According to my dictionary app, craft is defined as an “art, trade or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill.”
Interview: Austin Kleon, author of Show Your Work
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.
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.”
Submit Your Prompt: July 2014
Submit your 300-word-or-less response to this prompt by the 20th of the month.
Reader Prompts Responses from June 2014: Something on My Desk
In the June 2014 issue we asked our readers to respond to the Prompt, “Something on my desk.”
Who I Am by Sue Granzella
I never knew quite how my mom would answer the question that I’d pose to her each morning when I’d call at 6:45.
Affairs of Dragons by Wendy Thornton
Starla’s poems are difficult and shocking but impressively written. She’s a kid, but it’s clear that she knows things a 14 year old should not know.
Savage Blossom by Amber Peckham
When I was growing up my father always tried to keep Venus fly traps… They didn’t look like anything dangerous, but I always got a little nervous knowing that it ate meat..
Fabric by Andrea Fox
My father came home every night with a pack of Pall Malls in his shirt pocket, beer on his breath and several rubber bands around his wrist.
