Blog Grid Blog The Sputter: The Monster Under Every Writer’s Bed (and how you can fight it) By: Amanda McCarthy March 3, 2017 It is nine-thirty on a Monday night. Usually, you’re not a last-minute-poet. But tonight, your midnight deadline is drowning under pages and pages of... Becoming the Writer That I’ve Always Been By: Julia Alexander March 1, 2017 Ever since I could read and write, I have been infatuated with storytelling. I remember the desk in my childhood bedroom overflowing with half-filled... This, too, Will Snatch Your Edges By: Traci Parker February 28, 2017 Ebonics is ‘trendy’ when the right mouth is speaking it. Many Americans forget about or, rather, neglect Ebonics. It’s real. And it’s lit. In case you... How to Surive an Attack from an Ex-M15 Agent: Eleven Steps to Getting the Most out of Your Writing Workshop By: Jameson Croteau February 27, 2017 Someone told me— right before my transatlantic flight—that Englishmen hate confrontation. Flash forward to my writing internship in London and I have... How to Read a Book When You Can’t Breathe Through Your Nose By: Betty Noe February 26, 2017 Falling into bed with a good book always sounds like the perfect solution whenever I’ve acquired the latest illness that is in vogue among my friends... Korean Jesus By: Taylor Caron February 24, 2017 I would often relay my father’s life story to the first graders that would congregate around my desk at school. Even as a child, I understood that the... Send Nudes: Contemporary Language, Literature, and the Female Form By: Rebecca Hill February 22, 2017 The instructions specified that I got undressed. A notepad in hand, I stood in front of the bedroom mirror in my apartment and looked for the things... Want to Write? Get Talking. By Benjamin Schultz February 21, 2017 Like most people, I can never pass up a good story. I’m sure that you are no different. Stories have always been able to captivate the human psyche–... When is a Good Time to Stop Writing? Spoiler Alert: Probably Never. By Emily Catenzaro February 20, 2017 On the subject of perseverance in writing, a question that may linger in many writers’ minds is: what is the correct timetable for getting published?... «‹515253545556575859›»