Writerly Resource of the Week: Write Publish Shine. I love this podcast because it normalizes how challenging it is to get published in lit journals, but also shows emerging writers that it is possible. Rachel Thompson has a host of tools to help writers get to know the literary journal…

(a poem, by Joanell Serra) (1) on the day that gravity broke kindergarteners laughed waving their arms like blue birds reaching for their swimming goldfish crackers an older boy — almost twelve – recognized the Icarusonian nature of their choice tossed jump-rope lassos to the sky an east village physics…

Early one morning in February 2020, I found a spot on a bench in downtown Oaxaca and scribbled in my journal. Sunshine, my personal drug of choice, spilled like a pool across the cobblestones. I was meeting nine people in an hour to go on a temple-climbing adventure, followed by…

Read the latest in the series “The Untold Story” , highlighting the contributors in the upcoming release, (Her)oics Anthology. Bianca Sabogal is a Colombian American woman residing in Warwick, NY with her fiancé Ryan, and two son’s, Isaiah and Chance. Bianca has an A.A.S. in Occupational Therapy and is an…

Readers, meet another of the contributor’s to (Her)oics:Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Pia Wood Pia’s essay for the anthology, Breathe Easy, gives us a glimpse of her time in and out of the hospital, fighting Covid-19, and her process nurturing herself through it, with the help of her…

Readers, meet another of the contributor’s to (Her)oics:Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Nikki Kallio. Nikki’s writing is rich and lyrical. …

So, you aren’t being as productive as you had hoped during the apocalypse?” This is literally what I say to clients who somehow feel they aren’t accomplishing enough. If life was a video game, the initial world we had all been playing in dissolved in front of our eyes in…

Christmas Sweaters for Congress. Bah humbug is too strong a word for my feelings about the holiday season. I don’t hate it, I just have a few things I enjoy and a whole lot about it I don’t. Things that make the season palatable: Hallmark movies. Stop judging. Actually, I…

Alma Mater Inside the building, we almost run up to two flights of stairs, because Jeanie is so determined to get to class on time. It’s one of her more annoying traits, this insistence on being prompt. And prepared. She probably has paper, pencils, pens, a highlighter and the textbook in her…