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Why Cant a Smart Woman Love Fashion? – Personal Essay on Style – Elle. It’s been happening with some frequency lately, posts on Facebook written […]

…I’ll be giving a talk on conflict in fiction, titled (not too surprisingly) “Fighting Words: Conflict and the Art of Southern Storytelling” at Auburn University-Montgomery. […]

I’ve spent the last several years submitting to journals and contests and I’ve learned to be patient as I’ve waited the weeks and months for […]

It feels like this interview should hand in hand with the post from yesterday. Take a look and enjoy this interview with a young poetry […]

It’s been a long winter and, as you can see, a long (though not intentional) absence from the old blog here. But as the sun […]

So fetch me an aspirin and a bacon sandwich please, love. 19 Reasons Why @CrapTaxidermy Is The Most Horrifying Account On Twitter.

Barry Hannah was nicer than I thought he would be, sitting behind a messy desk and telling me that my manuscript would be published “as […]

I recently bought a parcel of farmland next door to my parents’ acreage. It is 78 acres of rocks and hill, pasture and hayfield, and […]

One of my favorite short stories is “The Sleep” by Caitlin Horrocks (http://www.caitlinhorrocks.com). In it, a family going through a hard time–the sudden and tragic […]