The Clarion West Write-A-Thon, Clarion West's annual fundraiser, ended this past Friday! It started back on June 21, and ended on July 31. I signed up for the Write-A-Thon because I wanted to push myself to write a new draft of my first novel, which I had begun working on in late May/early June, and … Continue reading Readout: Clarion West Write-A-Thon
Publication – New Poem!
The fifth and final poem I sold to Quatrain.Fish is out! You can read it here. I wrote this poem as an expression of my frustration with continued intolerance and racial inequality in the US. Black lives matter. Love is love. I know there are many, many lists of charities out there working to advance … Continue reading Publication – New Poem!
Publication – Another new poem!
The fourth poem I sold to Quatrain.Fish came out today! This one started out as a much longer piece (closer to 30 lines, instead of the final 4 line version). During my review/editing process for it, I realized these lines (originally the last stanza) packed more of a punch on their own, so I decided … Continue reading Publication – Another new poem!
Publication – A new poem!
The third poem I sold to Quatrain.Fish is out today! This is the one I wrote back in college, and I'm glad it's finally seeing the light of day. You can read it here!
Clarion West Write-A-Thon!
I'm late to announce it here, but I'm participating in the Clarion West Write-A-Thon this year, which is an annual fundraiser for the Clarion West Writers' Workshop. It started June 21 and runs until the end of July, so I signed up for it as motivation to finish my rewrite of the "Courier Novel" (I'm … Continue reading Clarion West Write-A-Thon!
Publication – Another Poem!
The second poem I sold to Quatrain.Fish is out today! It's another four-liner, a bit more romantic than the first one, and you can read it here!
Publication – Poetry!
GUESS WHAT! Quatrain.Fish published one of my poems today!!!! It is very short (just four lines) and you can read it here!
Coming soon: Even more poetry!
The wonderful folks at Quatrain.Fish have picked up three more of my poems, which means they're going to publish FIVE of them total!!! I am very excited and will of course share them as they are released. Of these three most recently sold poems:* I wrote one as an expression of my frustration with racial … Continue reading Coming soon: Even more poetry!
Coming soon – more poetry!
Two of my poems are forthcoming at Quatrain.Fish, which publishes poetry that's no more than four lines long. I am very excited, as both poems are dear to me. This was my first try shopping around one of the poems, and my seventh try for the other. I'm not sure when they'll be posted, but … Continue reading Coming soon – more poetry!
Poetry Collection
In my last post, I mentioned my growing poetry collection. Before the pandemic set in, I was regularly going to the bookstore, browsing the poetry section, and buying a bunch of poetry books at once. I picked books based on whether the poems I read while I was standing in the store struck a chord … Continue reading Poetry Collection