I’m so excited (and a little nervous!) this beautiful morning. Today, my amazing, multi-talented friend, Nancy Stohlman, and I are launching the website for our new adventure: Flash Fiction Retreats. Months of planning and exchanging roughly nine hundred million emails have resulted in our forthcoming writing retreats: Breckenridge, Colorado in August and (drumroll) stunning Costa
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
Hey, the snow has finally melted here in Colorado and there’s some good news to share! Co-author Robert Vaughan and I were thrilled by this lovely review of RIFT by Amelia White at the JMWW blog: “There were moments of peace and violence, of connection and loneliness, of levity and weight. Ultimately, the beauty of
Be there! 7:30 – 9:00! Organized by Monique Antonette Lewis, At the Inkwell has organized readings of fiction and poetry all over the U.S. Denver’s fiction event is this Monday night, Feb. 22nd. I will be reading with Kyria Abrahams, Nancy Stohlman, Nicholas B. Morris, and Leah Rogin-Roper at the awesome and lively Syntax Physic
I recently invited Gay Degani to Denver to participate at the Mercury Café where Nancy Stohlman curates the monthly reading series called the F-Bomb. The “F” refers to flash fiction, and because Gay has a collection of mostly flash stories, Rattle of Want, (Pure Slush Books), it felt like a good fit. She and Sally
Please join us at Denver’s Mercury Cafe for the 1st F-Bomb reading of 2016! I’ll be hosting two PHENOMENAL writers and friends, Sally Reno and Gay Degani! The event starts at 7:30 and will feature an open mic, so bring your own amazing flash fiction to read as well! Sally Reno’s fiction has appeared in
I have so much to be thankful for as 2015 draws to a close. The short short collection, RIFT, co-authored with the great Robert Vaughan, is set to officially launch from Unknown Press on December 1st. Huge thanks to Bud Smith and Unknown Press! When Robert was in Denver for the F-Bomb reading, the talented
Happy first day of summer! I’ve just completed the first week of the two-week flash fiction workshop and am enjoying the experience immensely! The writers who are helping me beta test it are excellent. They’re posting such inspiring work and are giving each other really insightful feedback. I am thinking of running the first “official”
Excited to be a part of this! A stellar lineup of writers, some I’ve met before and some not. If you’re in the area, please do stop by!
Last night’s reading at the Mercury Cafe went really well! Huge thanks to uber talented Katharyn Grant, who hosted the evening and who also very generously read a couple of my stories and did them more justice than I ever would. Thanks also to Sally Reno, who read a fantastic story of her own before