Last night I attended a reading at my university. Author Susan Kushner Resnick read from her bookYou Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish. Hearing an author speak the words they wrote is such an intimate experience. As she read from her book, the …
I appreciate and cherish all 26 of my followers. I’m always amped when a new person, in another state or another country finds something I say funny, witty, and/or interesting enough to take a chance and add me to their dashboard and by extension to the random content overload we experience in this day and age …
Picked this up at the book fest today. Saw the title and knew I had to get it, plus the cover art grabbed my attention. A month into my MFA program and I’m starting to realize this writing thing I’ve decided to pursue is not a game. This little gem of a book is going …
Press 53: 53-Word Story Winner (9/20-9/25): Todd Dulaney
press53: Congratulations to Todd Dulaney, whose story “Chance of a Lifetime” won last week’s 53-word story contest. Todd wins the Press 53 publication of his choice and a chance at getting his story published in Prime Number Magazine. The winning story appears below. Chance of a Lifetime … Press 53: 53-Word Story Winner (9/20-9/25): Todd …
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Twitter Hall Of Shame: Katie Moody (@katiebrady12)
This is a cautionary tale for us all… twittershame: Until Sunday, Katie Moody was just a senior administrative coordinator at John Hopkins University and a New England Patriots fan living in the wrong city, Baltimore. Now she is the scorn of the Twitterverse because of a crass tweet she posted after the Baltimore Ravens beat …
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Fookin Memoir Class, Yeah!
…say the title like Kelly, my favorite chic on Misfits I absolutely love my memoir class! Love is such an overused word but for lack of a better one at the moment I’ll keep it. I actually enjoy my reading assignments and the subtlety of learning in this graduate program. I really do feel like …
Hi there, I wanted to let you know about Press 53, a small publishing company that specializes in poetry and short stories. Our blog is host to tons of literary goodies, including a free, weekly flash fiction contest in which the prizes are publication and a free book! I hope you’ll take a minute to check us out!
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Ditching the Adult and Finding the Child
Hello Kitty pencil case, markers, crayons, glue sticks, construction paper, stickers and scissors are just some of the supplies needed for my creativity class, my foundational course for my MFA program. I used all of the above for our assignments this past week which consisted of bird watching, beginning to copy a poem into our …
A Dream Realized: Backstage at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
For years I have read magazines like Vogue, Marie Claire, and Bazaar hungrily drinking in the images splashed across the pages, wishing one day I’d be invited to a fashion show in New York City during Fashion Week. I imagined myself sitting in the audience one leg crossed over the other, elbow on knee attuning …
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My First Fashion Week!
I’m so pumped I got to attend a Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week show for the first time ever!!! I also was allowed backstage where I observed the sights and got to witness first-hand the preparations that go into setting up for a show of this magnitude. I was invited to attend the Nina Skarra show in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher …
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