For poets, reading is both business and pleasure. You can hide out in Squaw Valley workshopping your verses all you want, or enter every writing contest you stumble across online. But the most enjoyable way to become a better poet? Reading more poetry. It's simple enough to find […]
The Rock Canyon Poets group curates a poem-a-day (almost every day) and shares it in our Facebook group, as well as a writing prompt with a poem every Sunday. The curator, Lisa Connors, often selects poem samples from literary magazines who are currently open for submissions. If you […]
It has been both a blessing and a burden. Music, that is. For years I carried my secret around like I was the recipient of King Tut's curse. Friends knew I wrote prose and poetry but they were unaware that I was also a very frustrated wannabe composer. […]
My session is now available! If you’ve already registered you should have the email already and if you haven’t, you can still register! Click here to sign up for free! It's easy to come along. You don't need to pack a bag, travel halfway around the world, find […]
My session is now available! If you’ve already registered you should have the email already and if you haven’t, you can still register! Click here to sign up for free! It's easy to come along. You don't need to pack a bag, travel halfway around the world, find […]
I'm going to the Finding the Writer Within Online Event, and I want you to come too. My session “Submit Your Writing Like a Pro” launches on August 10. You will not want to miss it! Click here to sign up for free! We'll be doing Writing Exercises […]
I'm going to the Finding the Writer Within Online Event, and I want you to come too. My session “Submit Your Writing Like a Pro” launches on August 10. You will not want to miss it! Click here to sign up for free! We'll be doing Writing Exercises […]
I remember the first time I dipped my toes into the publishing world. It was 15 years ago. Excited and terrified, I spent hours online searching for local writing groups and didn't have much luck finding anything in my rural area. What I found online was an enormous […]
The time has come to think about publishing. You have at last, a "body of work", which represents many hours of writing, revision, submissions, acceptances, critiques, rejections, more revisions, editing- blood sweat and tears. You've been published on sites esteemed or obscure, your church bulletin, or Paris Review. […]
I just went to the kitchen to put my coffee mug in the sink and the mesh drain filter was full of assorted debris: food scraps, a chunk of cat food, and something I can't identify. Yuck! As I knocked the filter into the garbage can to clear […]
