Another personalized rejection letter today—this time from a mag that pays $1000 for a single short story. “Send us more!” they said. “We really enjoyed your prose style.” But..but… Personalized [...]
This thing happens here sometimes where, for a night or two, I’m “one of the dudes.” Eric calls me “man.” Neil says, “Yeah, dude. Of course!” S says, “Hey, wait till you hear this one!” We make [...]
It’s a pretty gratifying set-up, this Union County Writer-in-Residence lifestyle. Without the commitment of teaching the college class, I’m finding that I genuinely have a lot of time on my [...]
Today’s post is a simple redirect to two things I’m really happy about lately: First, I wrote a guest blog post for Cheek Teeth titled Focus on Artisan Culture: Letterpress Printing. [...]
I took a moment today to sit back and appreciate the talented writers in my life that I can also call my friends. In the past year, I’ve already bought and enjoyed books by: Britt Kaufmann, [...]
All of this within the past 48 hours: No from the Fine Arts Work Center for a 9-month fellowship. No from Whitman College (the only gig that would have kept me close to S) for a Visiting [...]