Inspiration and Joy at the Vortext Writers’ Conference
I love writers’ conferences. My grandmother bought me a ticket to my very first writer’s conference back when I was in my mid-twenties — her way of both supporting my […]
Writing, Me, and Carli Lloyd
Earlier this summer, I wrote an essay about that tragic pool party in McKinney, Texas, where police overreacted, with guns drawn, to a complaint from a white mom about noisy […]
Women Writers: Apply for a Residency at Hedgebrook!
A few days ago I hit send on my application for a 2016 residency at Hedgebrook, the artistic retreat center for women writers on Whidbey Island in Washington. Last year, […]
Do Not Delete Your Memoir
This week staff writer Kara Brown published a snarky piece at Jezebel titled Delete Your Memoir. She writes: Go ahead, do it. Drag and drop. Hold down the “delete” […]
For all you writers: the aspiring, the struggling, the enduring
I guess I could call myself an aspiring, a struggling, AND an enduring writer. I haven’t been blogging much (ok, at all) because 2015 is my year to write a […]
