Not Everything Has To Be Work
As a teenager, taking writing workshops as part of my arts school concentration, I remember submitting to a contest with a group […]
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On Seeing the Fruits of Your Labor
I’ve spent the last six weeks tucked away in a hamlet in the hills of Western Massachusetts, just off a highway that […]
Emerging Author Dispatches: Five Things I Wish I Knew About the Publishing Process Before Starting Out
Full disclosure: This blog post should’ve been up two three weeks ago.* Lately I’ve been negligent in my WROB fellowship duties (and […]
Trading Headspaces
Recently, a writing friend and I were trading tips on juggling multiple projects, which is a tricky endeavor at the best of […]
On Community
When I arrived in Boston three years ago, it was my second cross-country move as an adult. The first took me from […]
What Gets Lost
Several years ago, I bought an unbelievably gorgeous ring at a department store in Toronto. I have no idea how much it […]
What Happens on Submission Stays on Submission
When I was querying literary agents for the first (and second, and third) time, I kept a moderately active Blogspot. Nothing too […]
On Summer
Lately I’ve been looking ahead, thinking a lot about summer. There’s an untitled poem about summertime I’ve been working on for four […]
In Defense of the Second Person
Lately, I’ve been questioning the use of the second person point of view in fiction. The you pronoun features prominently in my […]
On Not Writing
Last weekend I participated in Bread Loaf’s Sunday Salon reading series. The reading took place at Jimmys 43 in New York City. […]