Curated reads. — Favorite Essays: Favorite Short Stories: Favorite Novels: Favorite Short Story Collections: I learned something important about short story collections this year. While I was studying how to arrange my short stories for my debut short story collection, I came across On Writing Fiction by David Jauss. There’s a chapter called Stacking Stones: Building a Unified …
New Flash—Which Is Nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize
And a link to my story, These Things We Not Saying I wanted to share an exciting news. SmokeLong Quarterly published my flash last Monday. I’ve been reading their flashes for years, and I’m so glad my work found a home in this journal. My flash has also been nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize. …
Momma, Did You Hear the News?, and Where Are the African Literary Magazines?
Curated reads Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Fall in love with writing againCan you see me?Other motherMy name is a mountainTo force a tenured professor to be done… to be out… to be giving up a tenureThe curl of timeThe rise of emotional divestment Favorite Short Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Elbow in Zulu, Dara KellThat Chookaloski …
What Happens When We Stop Remembering and 100 Small Acts of Love
Curated links. Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Flash Fictions I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Short Story I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Writing Advice I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Finding rest in creative labor, Holly Haworth, LitHub Favorite Sentence I Read in the Past …
24 Favorite Essays I Read in 2023
And favorite sentence and paragraph of the year — My favorite essays of the year will take you all over the world—Antarctica, Somalia, Rikers prison in New York, Afghanistan, West Africa, and more—and touch vast topics—our climate, grief, childbirth at 45, abuse, love, and identity. Favorite Essays I Read in 2023 Favorite Sentence of the …
My 5 Favorite Short Story Collections I Read in 2023
And honorable mentions. I don’t remember when I read Lauren Groff’s short story collections—Delicate Edible Birds and Florida—but once I did I couldn’t stop, I didn’t want to stop, I wished I had all the time in the world to read the stories again. That never happened to me before. Now, writing short stories—especially stories where my …
You Will Bear This Pain Long After You’re Gone and 100 Notable Books for 2023
Curated links. Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Short Story I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Sentence I Read in the Past Two Weeks: “I feel successful when I have gap in my day to read a novel, slowly.” Emma Gannon, A year of change Favorite Paragraph I Read in …
Betrayed by the City That Raised Me and ‘America Does Not Deserve Me.’
Curated links. Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Flash Fictions I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Short Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Sentence I Read in the Past Two Weeks: “I’ll never stop hating this place, and I will never, ever leave it.” Little Fish, Big …
Ethiopia’s History Explained in Less Than 10 Minutes
A YouTube link. First, my prayers: May there be a world where there is no war May the sun rise bringing a day when people’s lives are not lost because of a war Second, I’m sharing a YouTube video, which I hope you will love. I chose this video not because it’s possible to tell …
I Remember Arthur, Some Things I Know About Elvis, and Librarians on the Front Lines
Curated links. Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Flash Fictions I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Short Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Favorite Writing Advice I Read in the Past Two Weeks: Octavia Butler’s advice on writing (which applies to all creative practice) Favorite Sentences I Read in …