(Image by Eva Rinaldi) Dusting off my blog here with some news…My piece, “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” was recently published at the wonderful Jellyfish Review. I’d been asked to contribute by editor Christopher James to celebrate their 2nd anniversary and had another piece cued up, but then the shooting in Las Vegas
I’m honored to be judging the 2017 Newfound Prose Prize. Please send your beautiful chapbook length fiction or nonfiction work! Esteemed panelists Ashley Hutson, Michele Finn Johnson, and Rowland Saifi will be doing the first round of reading and long list selection. This contest closes March 15th, so you have time to polish your work
I’m very excited to teach “The Heart of Flash: Characters Who Yearn,” an all new weekend flash workshop with Word Tango. Registration is now open and spaces are limited! Go HERE to read some really nice testimonials for my classes and to sign up!
So honored that my story, “A Room With Many Small Beds” from RIFT, and originally published in Threadcount Magazine, was chosen by Stuart Dybek for inclusion in this stellar anthology. Congratulations also to my co-author, Robert Vaughan, whose story, “A Box” (also in RIFT) was also selected. Huge thanks to Tara Masih and her team
I’m teaming up with the wonderful Word Tango in September for a new online flash fiction course, Sept. 23-25th! Stay tuned for more details and get on the mailing list for updates and first dibs on registration. These are always a lot of fun for me to teach (and fun for the participants too, I
Lovely Marie Gethins interviewed me about all things flash and my recent co-authored flash collection with Robert Vaughan, RIFT, for The Short Story. Marie asked great questions! I have a couple of new stories published in stellar places! First, “Imagine Your Daughter Is a Cherry Red Convertible,” a micro under 100 words, at New World
We have a few remaining openings for our week-long workshop (Aug. 20-26th): “Exploratory Fiction: Tap In, Dig Deep, Discover Voice.” Robert Vaughan and I will be leading a unique writing experience at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House once owned by Dennis Hopper and visited by the likes of Martha Graham, Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keefe, D.H.
Nancy was recently injured in a head-on collision by a car going 60 mph. She is currently hospitalized and will not be able to teach this summer as she continues to heal. I can think of few writers in the literary community as energetic, inspiring, and generous as Nancy. Please contribute if you can: Go
Well. I am astounded and grateful that two of my stories were chosen by Matthew Salesses for the 2015 Wigleaf Top 50. Both stories, “Ripe” and “Tool” were published by Lauren Becker, editor of the wonderful Corium Magazine. I also thrilled that my story “The Children Called Him Yuck-Yuck” published by Ellen Parker in FRiGG,
This is the most fun thing to happen in my writing life in a long time. Two of my stories have been chosen to be sold in the first ever story vending machine in the U.S. This has been introduced already in France and Coppola unveiled his story machine at Zoetrope Cafe in San Francisco