by SR_Admin | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Do you have an essay or memoir excerpt (up to 1,500 words) that you would like to get submission-ready? Check out my upcoming 3-week class for revision online with Project Write Now. Sign up here. Description from PWN website: Ready, Set, Revise! Transform essays from... by SR_Admin | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
My craft essay, “Flash Memoir: Using Markers of Time and Place to Ground Readers,” follows below. It first appeared (and still appears!) at the Project Write Now blog. I have been teaching for Project Write Now since the fall of 2024. It is an amazing... by SR_Admin | Aug 29, 2022 | HippoCamp, The Writing Life, Writing Conferences
It’s been a couple of weeks since HippoCamp22 took place in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and I am still basking in its glow. This was my first large, in-person event in the past few years, and even though I proceeded with some caution, I was also excited to... by SR_Admin | Aug 9, 2022 | Book Talk, Gun Violence Prevention, Moms Demand Action, The Writing Life
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. In late December 2021 I heard back from a literary agent who was interested in my manuscript. We had a few emails back and forth and then a phone conversation about how to make the work stronger. So the first quarter of... by SR_Admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Book Talk, Personal Essay, The Writing Life
Sad to the point of crying, which I don’t often do. For those who may be reading this and have never heard of Joan Didion, she was a journalist, novelist, essayist, Hollywood writer, wife, mother, and literary icon. I didn’t read her until I was in my MFA program in...