Interview with Amy Lynn Hardy, Runner Up in the WOW! Spring 2024 Flash Fiction Contest

  Amy Lynn Hardy is a high school foreign language teacher and a staff writer for Buffalo Spree magazine. Her work has also appeared in Huffington Post, Insider, and others. From 2011-2022, Amy resided and worked in the windy port city of Bremerhaven, Germany and traveled all around Europe, enjoying many amazing places and cuisines. Amy’s hobbies include fitness, hiking, gardening, traveling,...

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Phantom Wedding by A.N. Porter Immersive Book Launch: A Spooky Way to Send Copies Flying off the Table

Photo by Rosie MacLeodBy Rosie MacLeod One night in north London, A.N. Porter awoke to see the ghosts of “two little girls at a desk. One was playing a board game and the other was drawing a picture.” The “petrifying” experience inspired her debut novel, Phantom Wedding. It’s a suspenseful horror story. But why restrict the scary experiences to the pages and its characters? Allowing the...

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Interview With Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, Author of Charmed, and Giveaway!

 We are excited to bring you an interview with Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, author of the novel, Charmed. Published through Tribeca Press, fans of romantic fiction and complex family dynamics will love Lorraine's latest novel. Today, we're excited to interview the author about her newest book and give you the chance to enter to win a copy of the book for yourself, along with a $25 Amazon gift...

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Using Google Maps Is a Lot Like Writing from an Outline

 Last weekend, we went to a family wedding. It was just under an hour from home, but we left early. I keyed the address into Google Maps. We were less than 10 minutes from the wedding venue when the directions took us across a cattle guard. For those of you who aren’t from Cow Country, that’s a pipe grid laid into the road. You can drive over it but cattle won’t cross it. The problem?...

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Interview With Odyssey Writing Workshops Instructor, E. C. Ambrose

 If you want to kick off 2025 with a writing class, you may want to consider Bodies and Heartbeats: Crafting Character from the Inside Out. Starting in January 14 of next year, E.C. Ambrose helps you to develop a clearer sense of what makes a powerful character and will teach you the techniques you need to develop strong characters. The application deadline is November 22, 2024.About the Instructor,...

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Interview with Sophie Goldstein: Spring 2024 Flash Fiction Contest Runner Up

Sophie Goldstein is a Jewish Chicana from Los Angeles, California. Most of her professional career has been spent as a theatre educator, director, and choreographer. For the past three years she has focused more on her writing and is incredibly grateful for platforms like WOW! Women on Writing who provide a space where writers can share their voice and improve their craft. Her writing has been seen...

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Don't Let Me Keep You by Kathie Giorgio: Blog Tour & Giveaway

We're excited to announce the blog tour for Don't Let Me Keep You by Kathie Giorgio. If you read this novel, you will be immersed in the push and pull of relationships within a family that feels so familiar. Each family member reveals secrets about themself and, in the process, secrets about other family members. This reading journey to reveal a family's history will have you asking questions about...

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Rejections and Notes

Not at this time. It doesn't fit our needs. Please submit again. Thank you for thinking of us. We wish you luck...editors have an unending list of ways to hopefully soften the harshness of the no. But they don't really take the sting out of the rejection, do they?I'm just thankful that we have moved (for the most part) past print communications. The days of opening a envelope, unfolding the crisp...

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Interview With Susan Strauss, Runner-Up in the WOW! Spring 2024 Flash Fiction Contest

 I'm so excited to be interviewing Susan Strauss, who joins us again as a runner-up in the WOW! Spring 2024 Flash Fiction Contest. Before we get to our interview, make sure you read her story Guadalupe and the Roses, and then come on back.First, here's more about Susan:Susan Strauss is a Portuguese-American author whose culture influences her identity and her writing. She is an English teacher,...

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