*SOME SPOILERS!* *CONTENT WARNING: FOUL LANGUAGE!* Friends, I'm super excited to share this just-under-an-hour zoom interview I had with the incomparable Jane Christmas! Her new book and first foray into fiction, A Flight of Saints, is out in the world and you must read it! Yes, there's a different name on the cover of this… Continue reading Interview with Jane Christmas about her new book ‘A Flight of Saints’!
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Are You A Writer if You Don’t Get Published?
I've been toiling with the question even though I know in my heart that the answer is a resounding YES. You see, although I have been published, it has been a long time since something has been accepted for publication. I continue to average 1-2 rejections a week. This is not me complaining. I get… Continue reading Are You A Writer if You Don’t Get Published?
You know you’re a writer when
You are constantly thinking of book titles. They come to you whilst you're driving to get your kids, for example. You're thinking about something that happened in your life, and a title for a chapbook, say, or even a full-length poetry collection swoops into your movie mind. Thick black helvetica letters in bold: BREAK-UPS FOR… Continue reading You know you’re a writer when
Poem 359 & 360 – Nod & Desideratum
Poem 359 - Nod in the lulls between feasts & filmsgifts exchangedreceiving joy & full-bellylaughter, I see her Loss holds a candlebehind the treeshe is quietthought-fullher heart a foreston her sleeve we acknowledgeeach other witha nod & my heartcrawls up herleg, adds acluster of saplingsto her woodland Poem 360 - Desideratum the end is near… Continue reading Poem 359 & 360 – Nod & Desideratum
VANESSA SHIELDS 