For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which uses one of the following as its title. For a bonus challenge, try to use as many of the titles in your piece as you can manage organically.
Titles:
Dark Clouds Quickly Approaching
Ocelot
Look No Hands
In a Carmine Jacket
With Woodwinds
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try Benny Goodman At Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw Poland 197
For today's writing exercise you will pick one word from each of three groups and write a sentence that includes all of the words, feel free to change tense, pluralize etc. Repeat the process at least five (5) times using different combinations. Now write a piece of fiction or poetry that uses at least two (2) of those sentences. Try to use as many of the sentences as you can.
Word Bank 1:
Singular
Enamel
Grace
Grip
Welt
Wordbank 2:
Redeemable
Kept
Boor
Wallow
Swelter
Wordbank 3:
Examine
Hamper
Toss
Froth
Toothless
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try the album No Angel by Dido.
For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following three things. Nice and simple. If you're not intimately familiar with these things do a little reading and see if a piece of info sticks out.
For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which begins with one of the following sentences.
Sentence 1: The paint would never have a chance to dry.
Sentence 2: The sound of an aerosol paint can rattling is well known to every beat cop.
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try this iconic underground hip hop album 2000 Fold by Styles of Beyond. I have many great memories of listening to this album when I first moved to San Diego and was riding the trolley and bus everyday for hours. Listening to indie hip hop and punk and reading tons of books. Good times.
For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which uses one of the following as its title. For a bonus challenge, try to use as many of the titles in your piece as you can manage organically.
Titles:
Of the Air
Pillars Beneath
Not Distracted But Disinterested
Caduceus
En Route to Salem Oregon, Existence Comes Undone Just a Tiny Bit
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try this video of Bobby McFerrin's Spontaneous Inventions album.
For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which is inspired by the following piece of art: Pursuit of Balance by the amazing surrealist Rob Gonsalves
Many options here from the converging scenes that Gonsalves is famous for. It can be focused on the scenery or the person viewing the scenery. You can write this from the perspective of the boy or someone viewing the scene, whether a random person, the young man as an older adult, a omniscient narrator, whatever you'd like. I adore Gonsalves' work and someday I'll own a print of my own.
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If you would like some music to write to, try Ani DiFranco's album "Not a Pretty Girl".
For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which uses one of the following as its title. For a bonus challenge, try to use as many of the titles in your piece as you can manage organically.
Titles:
Cold Cold Cold
Hack Jobs, Failures and Pompous Buffoons
Self Portrait, In Memoriam
Wading
Bedlam
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try the background sounds try this simulated sci-fi apartment noise inspired by Star Wars Coruscant.
For today's exercise we have split paths for fiction and poetry, though I highly recommend that even fiction writers try the poetry exercise. For fiction, write a piece with a repetition of the dialog sentence "Five pounds is my price." For poetry do an erasure or black-out poem from the following selection of H.G. Wells' short story "The Crystal Egg". An Erasure/Blackout is really simple: you take the given text and remove many words to make it your own new piece. One way to go about the erasure that I like to do is to copy the text and paste it twice into your document before you start erasing or blacking out (in MS Word set the text background color to black), that way if you get further into the erasure and decide you want a somewhat different tone or direction, it's easy to go to the unaltered version and make the erasure/black-out piece smoother. Another tip is to look for recurring words, in this example Cave occurs many times and could be a good touchstone for your piece.
Erasure Selection:
from The Crystal Egg
Mr. Cave’s answers were wretched; he could only mumble weak assertions that he knew his own business best. They drove him from his half-eaten supper into the shop, to close it for the night, his ears aflame and tears of vexation behind his spectacles. Why had he left the crystal in the window so long? The folly of it! That was the trouble closest in his mind. For a time he could see no way of evading sale.
After supper his step-daughter and step-son smartened themselves up and went out and his wife retired upstairs to reflect upon the business aspects of the crystal, over a little sugar and lemon and so forth in hot water. Mr. Cave went into the shop, and stayed there until late, ostensibly to make ornamental rockeries for gold-fish cases, but really for a private purpose that will be better explained later. The next day Mrs. Cave found that the crystal had been removed from the window, and was lying behind some second-hand books on angling. She replaced it in a conspicuous position. But she did not argue further about it, as a nervous headache disinclined her from debate. Mr. Cave was always disinclined. The day passed disagreeably. Mr. Cave was, if anything, more absent-minded than usual, and uncommonly irritable withal. In the afternoon, when his wife was taking her customary sleep, he removed the crystal from the window again.
The next day Mr. Cave had to deliver a consignment of dog-fish at one of the hospital schools, where they were needed for dissection. In his absence Mrs. Cave’s mind reverted to the topic of the crystal, and the methods of expenditure suitable to a windfall of five pounds. She had already devised some very agreeable expedients, among others a dress of green silk for herself and a trip to Richmond, when a jangling of the front door bell summoned her into the shop. The customer was an examination coach who came to complain of the non-delivery of certain frogs asked for the previous day. Mrs. Cave did not approve of this particular branch of Mr. Cave’s business, and the gentleman, who had called in a somewhat aggressive mood, retired after a brief exchange of words — entirely civil, so far as he was concerned. Mrs. Cave’s eye then naturally turned to the window; for the sight of the crystal was an assurance of the five pounds and of her dreams. What was her surprise to find it gone!
She went to the place behind the locker on the counter, where she had discovered it the day before. It was not there; and she immediately began an eager search about the shop.
When Mr. Cave returned from his business with the dogfish, about a quarter to two in the afternoon, he found the shop in some confusion, and his wife, extremely exasperated and on her knees behind the counter, routing among his taxidermic material. Her face came up hot and angry over the counter, as the jangling bell announced his return, and she forthwith accused him of “hiding it.”
“Hid what?” asked Mr. Cave.
“The crystal!”
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try this playlist of the Beastie Boys instrumental album The Mix-Up
For today's writing exercise you will pick one word from each of three groups and write a sentence that includes all of the words, feel free to change tense, pluralize etc. Repeat the process five (5) times using different combinations. Now write a piece of fiction or poetry that uses at least two (2) of those sentences. Try to use as many of the sentences as you can.
Word Bank 1:
Twin
Weaken
Falsify
Runt
Plus
Wordbank 2:
Weather
Keeper
Retina
Opine
Queasy
Wordbank 3:
Group
Lear
Flare
Smoke
Iridescent
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try the instrumental bonus tracks from the album Days to Come by Bonobo.
For today, we're going to write a poem or prose piece inspired by another piece of art or an ekphrastic piece. The piece of art in question is this photo from Pulitzer Prize winning Reuters photographer Adrees Latif:
Whether you're writing a lyric poem about what the man or boy are thinking in this moment, the lead up story to this climactic event (who is the man and how did he get to that place and time of fording the river with so many others), or if this is the impetus for a greater story, a moment that is flashed back to by the child or father later in life. There's a ton of possibilities.
If you'd like background writing music here is indie hip hop producer Rjd2's first solo album Deadringer (2002).
For today's exercise we have split paths for fiction and poetry, though I highly recommend that even fiction writers try the poetry exercise. For fiction, write a piece with a repetition of the dialog sentence "Five pounds is my price." For poetry do an erasure or black-out poem from the following selection of H.G. Wells' short story "The Crystal Egg". An Erasure/Blackout is really simple: you take the given text and remove many words to make it your own new piece. One way to go about the erasure that I like to do is to copy the text and paste it twice into your document before you start erasing or blacking out (in MS Word set the text background color to black), that way if you get further into the erasure and decide you want a somewhat different tone or direction, it's easy to go to the unaltered version and make the erasure/black-out piece smoother. Another tip is to look for recurring words, in this example Cave occurs many times and could be a good touchstone for your piece.
Erasure Selection:
from The Crystal Egg
The swarthy young man had so far remained a spectator, watching Cave keenly. Now he spoke. “Give him five pounds,” he said. The clergyman glanced at him to see if he were in earnest, and when he looked at Mr. Cave again, he saw that the latter’s face was white. “It’s a lot of money,” said the clergyman, and, diving into his pocket, began counting his resources. He had little more than thirty shillings, and he appealed to his companion, with whom he seemed to be on terms of considerable intimacy. This gave Mr. Cave an opportunity of collecting his thoughts, and he began to explain in an agitated manner that the crystal was not, as a matter of fact, entirely free for sale. His two customers were naturally surprised at this, and inquired why he had not thought of that before he began to bargain. Mr. Cave became confused, but he stuck to his story, that the crystal was not in the market that afternoon, that a probable purchaser of it had already appeared. The two, treating this as an attempt to raise the price still further, made as if they would leave the shop. But at this point the parlour door opened, and the owner of the dark fringe and the little eyes appeared.
She was a coarse-featured, corpulent woman, younger and very much larger than Mr. Cave; she walked heavily, and her face was flushed. “That crystal is for sale,” she said. “And five pounds is a good enough price for it. I can’t think what you’re about, Cave, not to take the gentleman’s offer!”
Mr. Cave, greatly perturbed by the irruption, looked angrily at her over the rims of his spectacles, and, without excessive assurance, asserted his right to manage his business in his own way. An altercation began. The two customers watched the scene with interest and some amusement, occasionally assisting Mrs. Cave with suggestions. Mr. Cave, hard driven, persisted in a confused and impossible story of an inquiry for the crystal that morning, and his agitation became painful. But he stuck to his point with extraordinary persistence. It was the young Oriental who ended this curious controversy. He proposed that they should call again in the course of two days — so as to give the alleged inquirer a fair chance. “And then we must insist,” said the clergyman. “Five pounds.” Mrs. Cave took it on herself to apologise for her husband, explaining that he was sometimes “a little odd,” and as the two customers left, the couple prepared for a free discussion of the incident in all its bearings.
Mrs. Cave talked to her husband with singular directness. The poor little man, quivering with emotion, muddled himself between his stories, maintaining on the one hand that he had another customer in view, and on the other asserting that the crystal was honestly worth ten guineas. “Why did you ask five pounds?” said his wife. “Do let me manage my business my own way!” said Mr. Cave.
Mr. Cave had living with him a step-daughter and a step-son, and at supper that night the transaction was re-discussed. None of them had a high opinion of Mr. Cave’s business methods, and this action seemed a culminating folly.
“It’s my opinion he’s refused that crystal before,” said the step-son, a loose-limbed lout of eighteen.
“But Five Pounds!” said the step-daughter, an argumentative young woman of six-and-twenty.
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try this playlist of the soundtrack to the movie Gross Pointe Blank
For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which uses one of the following as its title. For a bonus challenge, try to use as many of the titles in your piece as you can manage organically.
Titles:
Fallen From a Cloudless Sky
Tripod, Wolf
Atop Yet Another Mountain
Whiffed
Birdsong
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try the background sounds of 30 minutes of Northern Cardinal and woods sounds, you can feel like you're sitting alongside a forest path as you compose.
Micro Exercise 1: Describe one central action, and things that happened in the proximity simultaneously but which are unrelated.
Micro Exercise 2: Make a list of ten items which are yellow. Write a micro piece which uses at least seven of the items you listed.
Micro Exercise 3: Write a micro which uses the items not used in Micro #2, as well as a hole in the ground that is at least three feet deep.
Micro Exercise 4: Pick two interesting words from this Random Word Generator.
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try this waterfall and jungle ambiance video.
For today's writing exercise you will pick one word from each of three groups and write a sentence that includes all of the words, feel free to change tense, pluralize etc. Repeat the process four times using different words. Now write a piece of fiction or poetry that uses at least two of those sentences (or the majority of them).
Word Bank 1:
Jerk
Remove
Swap
Prop
Icicle
Wordbank 2:
Keep
Knee
Whisk
Wisp
Quake
Wordbank 3:
Groove
Leap
Flake
Smirk
Fake
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try this compilation of Spanish guitar music.
For today's exercise we have split paths for fiction and poetry, though I highly recommend that even fiction writers try the poetry exercise. For fiction, write a piece with a repetition of the dialog sentence "Five pounds is my price." For poetry do an erasure or black-out poem from the following selection of H.G. Wells' short story "The Crystal Egg". An Erasure/Blackout is really simple: you take the given text and remove many words to make it your own new piece. One way to go about the erasure that I like to do is to copy the text and paste it twice into your document before you start erasing or blacking out (in MS Word set the text background color to black), that way if you get further into the erasure and decide you want a somewhat different tone or direction, it's easy to go to the unaltered version and make the erasure/black-out piece smoother. Another tip is to look for recurring words, in this example Cave occurs many times and could be a good touchstone for your piece.
Erasure Selection:
The Crystal Egg
There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of “C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities,” was inscribed. The contents of its window were curiously variegated. They comprised some elephant tusks and an imperfect set of chessmen, beads and weapons, a box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one human, several moth-eaten stuffed monkeys (one holding a lamp), an old-fashioned cabinet, a fly-blown ostrich egg or so, some fishing-tackle, and an extraordinarily dirty, empty glass fish-tank. There was also, at the moment the story begins, a mass of crystal, worked into the shape of an egg and brilliantly polished. And at that two people who stood outside the window were looking, one of them a tall, thin clergyman, the other a black-bearded young man of dusky complexion and unobtrusive costume. The dusky young man spoke with eager gesticulation, and seemed anxious for his companion to purchase the article.
While they were there, Mr. Cave came into his shop, his beard still wagging with the bread and butter of his tea. When he saw these men and the object of their regard, his countenance fell. He glanced guiltily over his shoulder, and softly shut the door. He was a little old man, with pale face and peculiar watery blue eyes; his hair was a dirty grey, and he wore a shabby blue frock-coat, an ancient silk hat, and carpet slippers very much down at heel. He remained watching the two men as they talked. The clergyman went deep into his trouser pocket, examined a handful of money, and showed his teeth in an agreeable smile. Mr. Cave seemed still more depressed when they came into the shop.
The clergyman, without any ceremony, asked the price of the crystal egg. Mr. Cave glanced nervously towards the door leading into the parlour, and said five pounds. The clergyman protested that the price was high, to his companion as well as to Mr. Cave — it was, indeed, very much more than Mr. Cave had intended to ask when he had stocked the article — and an attempt at bargaining ensued. Mr. Cave stepped to the shop door, and held it open. “Five pounds is my price,” he said, as though he wished to save himself the trouble of unprofitable discussion. As he did so, the upper portion of a woman’s face appeared above the blind in the glass upper panel of the door leading into the parlour, and stared curiously at the two customers. “Five pounds is my price,” said Mr. Cave, with a quiver in his voice.
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try this playlist of the Beastie Boys instrumental album The Mix-Up
For today's writing exercise you will pick one word from each of three groups and write a sentence that includes all of the words, feel free to change tense, pluralize etc. Repeat the process four times using different words. Now write a piece of fiction or poetry that uses at least two of those sentences (or the majority of them).
Word Bank 1:
Escalate
Prove
Swamp
Ferret
Groom
Wordbank 2:
Rust
Error
Spike
Glove
Plate
Wordbank 3:
Peach
Spoon
Clump
Brisk
Inflate
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try this lo-fi hip hop version of the soundtrack of Spirited Away by Joe Hisaishi.
For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which uses one of the following as its title. For a bonus challenge, try to use as many of the titles in your piece as you can manage organically.
Titles:
Dropped in the Middle of Another Argument
[Expletive deleted] Again
Within Reason
Zipping out of Sight
The Smell of Oranges and Dirt
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try the background music from Disneyland's Tomorrowland.
You can write this from either the perspective of the boy or the insect, or someone observing the scene even. Is that a look of unease or wonder? Why is this image important? You tell me.
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If you would like some music to write to, try Jamiroquai's album "Travelling Without Moving"
For today's writing exercise you will go forth from a first line of my choosing. Where you go after that is up to you, but I'll add a couple other optional things to include if you would like a little more to work from.
Photo by Bluntvayne
First Line: Three people and five dogs tread toward me.
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Optional Items to Include: A Plastic Bag, A Shovel, A Newspaper.
Optional Words to Include: Rush, Withered, Entangle
Optional Restrictions: Under 300 words for fiction or 25 lines for poetry, Begin at least five lines or sentences with the word "From", Include at least three sentences that are three words or fewer.
Hard Mode: Write your poem as a sonnet or your story must end three paragraphs with the sentence/phrase "So they kept waiting."
For today, June third's writing exercise, or writing prompt if you sill, will be celebrating the number Three. I will provide three titles, you have a number of ways you can use them:
A) Pick one title and write a piece that fits that title.
B) Pick one title and work the other titles into the piece.
C) Write three short (or long) pieces that are completely separate (or roughly linked).
D) Write one piece in three sections, using the titles for each section.
E) Mash up the titles and use two or all three as the title for a fitting piece.
F) Whatever you want.
Titles:
Not Entirely Unbroken
Shrinking Jawbreakers
An Hour Before the Fair Closed
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If you want some background writing music and don't mind it having lyrics, try this: The Specials Self Titled Album.
For today, we're going to write a poem or prose piece inspired by another piece of art or an ekphrastic piece. The piece of art in question is this gif from the amazing movie The Wind Rises:
Whether you're writing a lyric poem about what the man is thinking in this moment, the lead up story to this climactic event (who is the man and how did he get to that place and time of raining flaming airplanes?), or if this is the impetus for a greater story, or someone flying a plane that is falling or whatever caused the destruction. There's a ton of possibilities.
Here is the Wind Rises soundtrack if you'd like background writing music.
For today, June's first writing exercise we will write pieces which include three things that must be integral to the story, as in don't have a line of throwaway dialog that uses the words to get them out of the way. If you plan on doing that, just write what you're going to write anyway and come back to this later when you don't have an idea to work from.
Place: Kitchen. Thing: Potting soil. Writing aspect: Use at least 8 words that include the "ch" sound.
Optional element: Mr. T (bonus if Mr. T is also in the title).
If you like background music, here's a good album to listen to while writing. Warning, there may be some swearing in the lyrics.
Beat Summer Submission Blues with 9 Publications Opening for Creative Writing Submissions on June 1, 2019
Summer is a known lull-time for making writing submissions, especially to literary magazines. Submitting poetry or submitting short stories can be a difficult process by itself, but finding places to send your work during the summer can make the process of publishing your creative writing even harder. I've put together a list of 9 journals, reviews and magazines which are opening for unsolicited submissions on June 1st (or in a couple cases, opening to free submissions).
This is your call for submissions!
To do more of your own research into perspective publications definitely see The Review Review, New Pages, Duotrope (requires a subscription, but very very useful), Submission Grinder (includes many trade/genre magazines others miss—mostly sci-fi/fantasy/horror) and Submittable's Discovery tab. For some general submission tips and a long list of journals that accept flash fiction check out my post Zebulon's Guide to Flash Fiction Submissions. It breaks down how to submit your writing for publication in detail if you're unfamiliar with the process.
While they have rolling submissions, June 1st marks their short free submission period. Split Lip's Poets & Writers description is very succinct: "Split Lip Magazine is voice-driven literary magazine with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print annually."
While they have 'fast track' submissions open until July (which includes a pdf version of the magazine), on June 1st they open their short free submission period. I'd recommend the fast track submission if you don't have a subscription because the digital version of the journal is definitely worth $3.
Ploughshares is a world-renowned literary journal that publishes only the best of the best, and believe that they get thousands of submissions a month. Only send your best pieces, and definitely get a subscription if you can.
Into the Void isn't just a literary magazine, it includes culture and arts essays, articles and features. That said, they do publish a good amount of poetry and short fiction.
While based in Israel they publish writing from the whole world and have a good mix of styles and content. I've contacted them about the upcoming theme but have not yet heard back. It will likely be announced when they open up officially.
About Place focuses on shorter pieces, limiting poems at 50 lines, and fiction at 4000 words. Be sure to read their theme and a few pieces to see how successful submissions addressed the announced topics to make your submission the best it can be.
Black Warrior Review is a highly regarded literary magazine out of the University of Alabama's MFA program. They are big on literary comics (for literary journals at least) and like Ploughshares, they receive tons and tons of submissions to be sure to read their samples and send the best and most appropriate pieces.
Space & Time Magazine: Trade magazine: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
While most of the listings here are literary journals, this is a magazine dedicated to genre fiction, poetry and art. They specify: "We seek: science fiction, fantasy, horror, steampunk, magical realism—we look for work with a speculative element and creative hybrids. Gratuitous sex and gore do not impress us, so only include if they are integral to the plot. No children’s stories. " They do not accept Simultaneous Submissions.
Gigantic Sequins is a beautifully produced literary journal that always includes really great artwork so if you happen to have a visual medium that you practice as well, consider that as well.
So while the summer doesn't have as many submission opportunities as the fall or spring, there are many places to submit your poetry or to submit your short story or submit your artwork for publication. The summer is also a good time to catch up on reading some of the many many journals currently publishing.
I've always found that the more compelling writing that I read, the more desire I have to write, the more ideas come to me even when I'm not reading or writing. Generating a few new pieces worthy of submitting will also be useful when the fall semester rolls around and the floodgates of journals open for your poems, prose, photography and whatever else you think a journal or magazine or literary website might want to publish. I'd also recommend doing some of my daily writing exercises so that you are given the seed to build your piece off of, which can often be the hardest thing to come up with from scratch.
Happy reading, writing and submitting this summer!
Prompt: Remove words from the following selection of text to make it your own erasure poem.
"Treating an adult like a child, or infantilization, creates a cycle of dependence in which the adult constantly needs to be told what to do and how to do it. The negative effects of infantilization on older adults, as when younger healthcare workers call them “cute” or “honey,” are well-documented as involving accelerated loss of functioning. Infantilization also causes resentment in the target. You probably know this feeling quite well if you’ve been treated in a patronizing manner by someone younger than you, if not in a medical setting, then perhaps at a store counter. “Let me show you this, sweetie,” would be such an example. In additional to feeling less than competent, you probably also feel insulted and resentful.
Even in children, infantilization can have negative consequences. Imagine you have a young daughter who’s just learned to tie the laces on her sneaker. She definitely takes longer to do this than it takes you. You’re in a rush to get her out the door, though, so you continue to tie her shoelaces in the morning just to save those precious moments. By taking over this task that she now is able to complete on her own, you’re reducing her sense of autonomy, even though you’re doing so for a perfectly legitimate reason. Eventually, with enough practice when you’re not rushed, she will become an accomplished shoelace-tier and this will no longer be an issue. "
Prompt: Write a piece which uses the word "Red" as the first word.
This may seem easy, but it's immediate. It's urgent. The urgency is the color, and it has many connotations. Red. Stop. Urgent. Help. Make your piece yours.
I believe strongly that keeping a notebook of snippets and interesting tidbits of information, dialogue, quotes, observations etc. is of great use to a writer. For one, I think the act of writing it down strengthens your memory of the thing you thought might be memorable enough to write, despite the inability to sit down at the given time to write an entire piece. It also serves as a reservoir of fragments to draw from when you are writing. David Kirby spoke well to the idea of a writer's notebook in an interview with Stephen Reichert of Smartish Pace when he said:
I’d have the young poets maintain a stockpile of linguistic bits: stories, weird words, snatches of conversation they’d overheard, lines from movies they’d seen or books they’d read. Most young poets will say something like, “Well, I have to write a poem now. Let’s see; what can I write about?” And then they end up writing about their own experiences, and, let’s face it, we all have the same experiences. So what all poets need is a savings account they can raid from time to time
This site is both a general writing blog, and one to help spark the writer's mind for ten to thirty minutes a day with short exercises which may not be full stories or poems, but will hopefully serve as a reservoir for future works.
I'm a writer living and teaching in San Diego. I received my BA from California State University, Long Beach, and my MFA from The University of Washington where I was the coordinating editor at The Seattle Review as it transitioned into its current "Long View" form. My writing has appeared in The Southern Review, The North American Review, The New York Quarterly, Permafrost, Bayou, 5AM, The California Quarterly, The Evansville Review, The Georgetown Review, Dark Matter, Cutthroat, Cairn, Miller's Pond, Pearl and The Lullwater Review among others and is forthcoming in ONTHEBUS's long awaited double issue, The Cape Rock and Exit 7. I've been once nominated for a Pushcart Prize and once did not receive a Pushcart Prize. I'm giving facial hair a go now too. Go figure.
If you have a piece that you really need another's opinion on, I may be able to help. Email zebulonworkshops@gmail.com if you would like to begin a correspondence. Critiques begin at $39 for 2 rounds of edits on a single poem and publishing advice.
