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 […]
Tag: creative 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 […]
Year in Review
Last December, I was pulling everything together for my application to the Writers’ Room fellowship. It would be difficult to quantify just […]
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 […]