Can Old Writing Learn New Tricks?
My first blog, which I started in 2007, was devoted to exploring and admiring free public libraries. I’m the child of these […]
Category: Posts by WROB Fellows
Abandoning the Mission
I make my way on the orange line to the State Street train station in hopes of heading to my sacred writing […]
The Shape of Stories: Diversity is as Much about Form as it is Subject Matter
This summer, I’ve been fortunate enough to attend the Odyssey Writer’s Workshop in Manchester, New Hampshire, a six-week craft intensive for speculative […]
Why Review Books? A Personal History
Why review books? What’s the point? To what useful end is one reader’s take on someone else’s art beyond her own delight, […]
Imagining Empathy
At the beginning of May, I had the opportunity to go to a talk with Clint Smith, writer and scholar, and Jesmyn […]
Revising and Rewriting as a Therapeutic Practice
I wanted to declare something like “most writers pursue their craft as a means of self expression,” but I realized even the […]
Nurturing Inspiration: From First Impulse to First Words
I recently attended a craft talk given by writer Pam Houston at the Vermont Studio Center. Houston focused on her process and […]
Writers’ Math
Some writer’s math: The protagonist of my novel manuscript, Jonas Adams Abraham, is 12 going on 13. The manuscript itself is 12. […]
On Roxane Gay, Mentorship and Confidence
“The most important thing any writer can do is take themselves seriously.” -Roxane Gay Last week I had the […]
On Writing, Rage, and June Jordan
Recently I’ve been meditating on the idea of black rage. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about stereotypes about “angry black women”—where these ideas […]