Lifting One Another Up My favorite author Pat Conroy called himself a “blurb slut,” and was known for writing blurbs…
Last night I met with a group of writers who gather to critique one another’s manuscripts. The genre and subject…
I love anthologies. Two of my dozen or so published essays appear in anthologies—“Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow,” in Circling Faith:…
I received a book in the mail last week. Unsolicited. So this morning I spent a little bit of time…
In my post on Monday about the 2013 Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference, I mentioned Lee Gutkind’s remarks about the sacrifices…
I’m still processing the four days I just spent helping direct the 2013 Oxford (Mississippi) Creative Nonfiction Conference, with Neil…
I continue to find treasures between the covers of a wonderful anthology, A Syllable of Water: Twenty Writers of Faith…
It’s a balancing act—working on a (fiction) novel and an (creative nonfiction) essay simultaneously. After reading Richard Gilbert’s blog post…