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Overdue Meto-news for May Day
Interview time (click here for the link). Thanks, as usual, to Mike Czyzniejewski, for the gig. Smokelong Quarterly has turned out another smashing edition with ol’ 55 (here) and is still including an interview for every single piece, every single … Continue reading
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Tagged art, cars, classic cars, Conversation, creative writing, flash fiction, interiviews, Kevin Hatch, Smokelong, writers, writing
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Meto-news: Smokelong Interview with Zach VandeZande
A much needed step toward some happy shares to come, please enjoy my all-in-the-spirit-of-angelic-fun interview with writer, Zach VandeZande, currently up in the new issue of Smokelong Quarterly. A shout out in thanks to Mike Czyzniejewski, Smokelong’s interview editor, for letting me … Continue reading
May ’15 Meto-News: New Publication in Timber, Vol. 5
I am happy to share with you the publication of my short story, “Revival”, in Timber, Vol. 5. This piece is yet another of the upcoming—nearly there—Southern story collection I began working on in earnest during the final phase of … Continue reading
Posted in bad advice, creative process, creative writing, creativity, Encouragement, Experimental Literature, Experimental Prose, fiction, Literary Journals, process, Publications, short story, submitting, Timber Journal, writers, writing
Tagged Creative process, creative writing, creativity, editors, encouragement, Experimental Literature, Innovative Literature, Literary Journals, publication, publications, publishing, short story, submitting, Timber Journal, writer, writers, writing
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The Goddard Blog: rawboned in the News
Check out the Goddard Blog, here, for a great overview/interview/write up of our rawboned staff in its current configuration: Ginna Luck, who I think of as our soul-bearer of beauty and the aesthetic ideal. bevin, who is the persona of poetry–a … Continue reading
Posted in art, artist, blogs, creative writing, flash fiction, Goddard, Literary Journals, MFA, nonfiction, online journals, opinions, Publications, rawboned, writers, writing, writing community
Tagged art, artists, blogs, creative writing, editors, flash fiction, Literary Journals, MFA, writer, writers, writing community
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Erasure Time
I’ve been erasing again. I am back on the Henry Van Dyke project pretty much every day, working steadily while also shaping the final projects in a short collection that began as my MFA thesis. On the whole, I have decided the … Continue reading
Posted in art, artist, creative process, creative writing, creativity, erasures, Henry Van Dyke, inspiration, painting, Poetry, process, writers, writing
Tagged art, artists, Creative process, creativity, erasures, Henry Van Dyke, old books, painting, poetry, writers, writing
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Things I Can Say about Spock, an Ex-Academic, and Power Now that They’ve All Bumped into Each Other in My Head
Of course it is sad, I am sad, to know that Leonard Nimoy is gone. With unashamed sentiment, I have read some lovely eulogies, tributes that address fully what a fan should say about the man and his body of … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, bad advice, creative process, creative writing, Encouragement, family, Helen, MFA, opinions, self-doubt, writers, writing, writing community
Tagged advice, Anger, Bad Advice, Creative process, creative writing, creativity, encouragement, Family, Leonard Nimoy, MFA, Mr. Spock, Power, Star Trek, writers, writing
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Meto-things: What’s Up
Here is where things are at: 1 My partner in all things of art and life, David L. White, has three poems up at The Knicknackery, “Low Tide”, “Crochet”, and “At Oven’s Door”, which I can’t even read because it breaks me. Intensity. I … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Creative process, creative writing, journals, nature, online journals, poetry, publication, writers, writing
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