Happy weekend, readers, and happy Labor Day weekend to my fellow U.S. Americans. I hope you’re all able to get some down time this weekend, unless you, like me, are taking part in Jami Attenberg’s Mini 1000 writing exercise this weekend, in which case, I hope your labors are fruitful.
If you’re in need of some fresh reading material to wind down your summer and move into fall, here are five goodies I’ve selected just for you:
Continue reading “Friday Five: Labor Day weekend reads”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.
Continue reading “Friday Five: thoughts on creativity and the craft”‘It’s important to me to keep this going for years.’
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.
Continue reading “Friday Five: Q&A with Thea Swanson, editor of Club Plum Literary Journal”Some recent reads worth sharing:
Continue reading “Friday Five: on great books, flash fiction, writing advice, late bloomers, and Alice Munro”Five things that caught my eye recently:
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