This will be a short post, because I’m going to share a link to a longer article that I hope…
Easter is only 18 days away. Lots of us have childhood memories (or more recent ones) of this holiday that…
I love anthologies. Two of my dozen or so published essays appear in anthologies—“Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow,” in Circling Faith:…
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed—best-selling author of a memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,…
It’s been over six months since I began the process of querying agents for my novel, Cherry Bomb. When the…
I continue to find treasures between the covers of a wonderful anthology, A Syllable of Water: Twenty Writers of Faith…
Don’t let my title overwhelm you… I’m really not going to WRITE about all of those things today, but I…
Although I grew up in Mississippi (37 years in Jackson) and have lived in Memphis for 25 years, I…
It’s a balancing act—working on a (fiction) novel and an (creative nonfiction) essay simultaneously. After reading Richard Gilbert’s blog post…
> The Creative Nonfiction Journal is holding a contest for their spring 2013 issue, “Southern Sin.” I’ve been thinking about…