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Friday Five: thoughts on creativity and the craft

Happy August. (Eek!) So many writers produced great ideas about creativity and the craft in July — the stuff just grew like the cornfields and grapevines here in the bee-you-tiful Missouri Ozarks. Here are five reads that inspired me during that summerest of months.

Friday Five: Q&A with Thea Swanson, editor of Club Plum Literary Journal

‘It’s important to me to keep this going for years.’

Thea Swanson, founder and editor of *Club Plum Literary Journal*

When I first learned about this cool online journal called Club Plum Literary Journal and read about its mission to offer readers and writers “an ongoing literary conversation, a resonant entry into a beautiful or strange or dark place,” I knew I wanted to be a part of it. And I was thrilled when editor Thea Swanson selected one of my writings to include in the latest issue, which came out earlier this month. Once I learned the piece had been accepted, I invited Thea to take part in a Friday Five, itself an attempt at an ongoing literary conversation. Read on for insights from Thea about the journal she founded (now in its fifth year), her thoughts on writing and creativity, and a special touch she adds to each published piece.