This post is reblogged from the Center for Literary Publishing, where I originally posted it on Thursday.

April 2013 Readers Write Theme: Doors     http://broadzine.com

The Readers Write theme for April is doors. Send us your creative work of any genre (in 500 words or less) inspired by doors. We’ll keep this one open until April 15. See our submission guidelines for further details. And happy writing! …

What’s black and white and read all over? That’s right, the Winter 2012 issue of Broad! It’s hot off the press, and free for download on the website: http://broadzine.com/issues/…

I took a little break from social media, but over the break, I was still having trouble writing. So I ordered this book, and it came just in time.

 I liked that Rosanne Bane focused on writer’s resistance, because while we might use the term “writer’s block” loosely, rarely do people suffer from true writer’s block, during…

I wrote this post last week for Colorado State University’s new MFA blog.

The Colorado State University Diversity Symposium this fall began their week with keynote speaker (and…

I asked the universe (Google) for images of women's magazines and the universe offered me this:

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I asked…

April has been work, writing, and one trip to Durango, Colorado where the stars were uninhibited by other kinds of light and the rest of the universe felt closer. Blogging has not happened, so this post on the last day of the month will be about May. Tomorrow, May 1, is Beltane, May Day, a celebration of spring and new beginnings. It is also a day of general strike: no work, no shopping, occupy…

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Morning Pages

I realize that I am behind the ball on Valentine’s Day, but it’s February and I still wanted to post about something I love. One of my favorite new writer things is a website called 750 Words. I learned about this through Cathy…

Writers, I know you’re just looking everywhere for a place to donate all of that money you don’t have. But in all seriousness, if you would like to make a small holiday donation or volunteer, these are some non-profit organizations that combine writing and social justice in compelling ways. And, if you don’t know what to get for people who already…

Where I was today.

We went as four to participate in the global revolutions taking place in so many cities right now. Initially we made no signs; our voices would suffice. We listened to and cheered for the brief speeches of the individuated crowd. A self-identified leaderless movement speaks in the voice of community: all sentences were repeated, thus creating a reverberating megaphone of understanding. There were independent newspapers being circulated. Veterans, lawyers, students,…

Genre has been occupying my mind, or more specifically, the absence and arbitrariness of genre, and binaries, and how they affect my writing life. I am taking a class on hybrid genres, reading texts which encompass several genres or defy categorization in many ways. Wordpress asked me when I moved my blog here to title it and then add a "tagline" --> a few words to describe what my blog is "about", and because I write in several/many categories, I said "Fiction. Poetry.…

“To dare every day to be irreverent and bold. To dare to preserve the randomness of mind which in children produces strange and wonderful new thoughts and forms. To continually scramble the familiar and bring the old into new juxtaposition.”

— Gordon Webber…

Oh, blog. Hello again. You are the neglected child of my writing life. I’ve put you off until it seemed nothing I wrote could justify the extended silence under which I have buried you in the great catacombs of the internet. Now I am digging you back up. Now I am inscribing words on you: clumsy words, but a beginning nonetheless.

Yeah, so I didn’t really blog this summer. And besides not blogging, I also didn’t do as much reading as I originally planned. Life, job, move…the list of…