Mar 291 minWhat is Left After a Pandemic?Check out my review of Carla Rachel Sameth's darkly humorous collection of pandemic-era poems, What is Left. The review appears on the...
Aug 10, 20211 minThank you, Regal House Publishing!I'm honored and thrilled to work with Regal House Publishing (RHP) -- an independent, traditional publisher with a stellar reputation for...
May 15, 20212 minWriting Prompt: What Have You Seen With Your Own Eyes?WASHOUT -- The sea turtle eggs, round and pale as golf balls, gaped from the side of the dune where the overheated, angry ocean had...
Nov 14, 20202 minDown the Rabbit Hole: Craft NotesJake Wolff recently won the Internet. Wolff, a creative writing professor, editor and director of The Florida Review, and author of The...
Oct 18, 20201 minThe FWA Saves 20202020 unleashed a global pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, and many bad DIY haircuts, but on Oct. 17, a nice thing happened. I won a gold...
Jan 5, 20205 minWriting Prompt: What’s Your Most Cherished Childhood Place?My friend Alan as a young boy, standing on his uncle's shoulders in Brazil, ready to leap into his future, with many cousins in the...
Jul 28, 20193 minWriting Prompt: You See a Body of Water ...Is it a freshwater pond? If so, is the water stagnant and murky, or clear, with light dancing on its surface? Maybe the body of water is...
Jul 2, 20193 minMe Write Pretty One DayWhenever I’m learning a new skill – let’s say, how to properly document a sea turtle nest, surf tiny waves, or make toast without burning...
Jun 9, 20192 minThe 13 Moons of Writer's Block “It’s just that my protagonist doesn’t want her brother to die,” I told a traveling companion at a café in Kathmandu. “I think it might...
Jun 9, 20192 minPlot Goddess Invents QVC QueenThe struggle was real. After reading my forthcoming novel, City in a Forest, an editor whose opinion I trust (Kim Sheeter) pointed out...
Jun 9, 20191 minEpic Snake Orgy Cures Writer's BlockIn my third novel, Seeing Gethin, my protagonist’s brother is crazy about snakes—brown, red, spotted, striped, harmless, venomous, or...