Interview with 2024 Q3 Creative Nonfiction Essay Runner Up, Emily Gates Prucha

Emily Gates Prucha teaches English and writes about education, active travel, and multicultural family life in the Czech Republic—the land of beer, castles, and Krtek (The Little Mole). Her “Half 'n Half” column ran for more than a decade at The Prague Daily Monitor. Her personal essays have been published on Motherwell, Entropy, The Keepthings, and other international outlets. When she's not teaching...

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Banned Book Week 2024: Freed Between the Lines

 September 22 to September 28 is Banned Book Week. Despite my own recent experiences with the challenge against my own book, there is some good news. In the last week, Publisher’s Weekly reported that between January 1 and August 31, 2024, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 414 challenges. Because so many challenges involve many books, the total number of challenged titles...

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Interview With Claudine Wolk, Co-Instructor for Sit & Write: Begin

 If you are looking for a course to get you back into the groove of writing, look no further than Claudine Wolk and Kate Brenton's Sit & Write: Begin. In this six-module online course, you'll receive much-needed inspiration and guidance on building confidence and sparking creativity and other resources for your author journey. Best of all, it's at an affordable price of only $97. Make sure...

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Interview with Jennifer Thomas, 2nd Place Winner in the WOW! Spring 2024 Flash Fiction Contest

  Jennifer Thomas grew up in the wilds of Miami, Florida. She loved to watch the pelicans soar, so ugly they were beautiful. Seeing them die off from the effects of DDT in the 1970s made her a lifelong environmentalist. As a teenager she read vast amounts of science fiction, especially early feminist sci fi, which inspired her to imagine how the world could be different. For the past 40-ish...

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My Year of Casual Acquaintances by Ruth F. Stevens: Blog Tour & Giveaway

 We are excited to launch another blog tour for an incredible book you'll want to add to your reading list. Author Ruth F. Stevens is launching a tour for her novel My Year of Casual Acquaintances. It's a perfect book for readers who like funny-sad, character-driven novels with compelling or quirky protagonists. Join us as we celebrate the tour launch with an interview with the author herself...

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Interview with Shawna Irvin, Runner Up in the WOW! Q3 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest

  Shawna Ervin has an MFA from Rainier Writers Workshop through Pacific Lutheran University in Washington state. She was a member of Tin House’s 2023 and 2024 Winter Online Workshops as well as Kenyon Review’s 2023 Workshop for Teachers Online. She was a finalist for Kenyon Review’s 2024 Developmental Editing Fellowship. Recent publications include poetry in American Literary Review, Bangalore...

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Friday Speak Out!: Journal Submissions as a Path to Success

By Ellen Birkett Morris When I publish a book or chapbook, people are often curious about how I built the collection, got the confidence to send it out and built an audience interested in reading it. My answer is by submitting to journals and getting work published there. I’ve used literary journals as a training ground, as motivation, to market test my work, and as a stamp of legitimacy and a way...

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Time Management with Tomatoes

 Like most writers I start each day with a widely varied to-do list. Today’s included tasks for my work as a WOW blog tour manager, product testing for an upcoming article, a blog post, updating my social media, composing questions for an interview, revising an article’s introduction and background reading for a new job. And will there be any time left for creative writing?From there my day...

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Interview with Jenna Tico, Author of Cancer Moon: How I Survived the Best Years of My Life

Today we are excited to bring you an interview with Jenna Tico, author of Cancer Moon: How I Survived the Best Years of My Life. Published through She Writes Press, fans of creative nonfiction will love this book with its humorous observations and insights as well as the reflective passages that resonate with that little voice inside our heads that says "But what if I had done this instead?" Jenna...

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Interview with Tabbie Hunt: Spring 2024 Flash Fiction Contest First Place Winner

Tabbie Hunt is a children’s book-packager turned freelancer. She writes in the small cracks between life and is particularly interested in failings, feelings, and funniness, with a side order of fantasy.When she’s not pretending to be an adult, she rescues and fosters cats and dogs, who in turn rescue her right back. She lives up a hill with her husband, two sons, and a pile of beasts. She dreams...

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Interview with 2024 Q3 Creative Nonfiction Runner Up, Sayantani Roy

Sayantani Roy grew up in small-town India and writes from the Seattle area. Her work has found home in Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin, Ekphrastic Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Gone Lawn, Heavy Feather Review, The Hooghly Review, TIMBER, West Trestle Review (forthcoming), and elsewhere. This season, she is participating as a mentee in the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship program. Say hello on Instagram...

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