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Apply to Clarion West by March 1st!
If you’re a writer of short fiction looking to spend six weeks making friends with your peers, meeting amazing authors, and receiving invaluable feedback on your writing, then I cannot encourage you...
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Writing Goals for 2014: Building a Sustainable Writing Life
My goals for 2014 keep me company at work Each January I try to set goals for myself for the coming year. Writing down my goals helps me visualize the smaller steps I need to take to meet those...
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Five University Jobs You Can Get with Your MFA (That Aren’t Adjuncting)
You have your MFA in hand and you’re looking for a job. For whatever reason – money, lack of class availability, the desire to try something new – you find that you aren’t looking for adjunct work. But...
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Alabama Phoenix Festival 2014
Art by Carly Strickand On Saturday, Bryan of Geek Notions and I traveled to Birmingham for the Alabama Phoenix Festival. This was an excellent con – just big enough to have a great variety of panels,...
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"Sister Winter" in The Colored Lens
My week six Clarion West story “Sister Winter” is out in the Summer 2014 issue of The Colored Lens. You can get the issue here. I’m very excited that this story has a great home. This is the last...
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Con Kasterborous 2014
I had never been to a single-fandom convention before, so I wasn’t sure what to expect from Con Kasterborous, Huntsville’s Doctor Who convention. I knew I could fill a whole weekend with Star Trek or...
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My Ace Outfit: Doctor Who Cosplay
When I found out that Sylvester McCoy would be in town for our local Dr. Who convention, I knew I wanted to try to dress up as Ace, his companion. Ace is a kick ass partner for the doctor. She’s a...
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Upcoming Event: Panel at NerdCon
I’m excited to announce that I will be presenting a panel at the first Rocket City NerdCon. I’ll share photographs and stories from my experiences at Clarion West and Kij Johnson’s Beginning Novel...
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NerdCon Schedule
The first Rocket City NerdCon starts tonight! Here’s an updated listing of my panel schedule: Friday, 5:00PM – Readings by the North Alabama Science Fiction Writers and Cake Appreciation SocietyLocal...
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“The Standing Part” Published in Gingerbread House Literary Magazine
My short story “The Standing Part” is in the current issue of Gingerbread House. You can read it for free here. Gingerbread House pairs each story or poem with a piece of artwork, and I am in love with...
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Clarion West Class of 2011: Publications and Sales, 2014
The Clarion West class of 2011 is still going strong. This year my classmates were busy writing stories, novels, radio dramas, and comic books! Here’s a rundown of our publications and good writerly...
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“Sister Winter” in Cast of Wonders
My short story, “Sister Winter,” originally published in The Colored Lens, is now available in audio form at the Cast of Wonders podcast. Many thanks to Marguerite Kenner (@LegalValkyrie) for...
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Story Publication: “How to Break Up with Your Zombie Boyfriend” in Strangelet
Cover Art by Kirsty Greenwood My flash fiction story, “How to Break Up with Your Zombie Boyfriend”, is out in the lovely Strangelet Journal. You can pick up an ebook or print copy here.
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Clarion West Write-a-thon 2016: Goals and Supporter Gifts
My Experience at Clarion West, Class of 2011 Five years ago this summer, I attended the Clarion West Writing Workshop in Seattle. For six weeks, I lived in a sorority house with seventeen other...
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Reflections on Surrealism & Revolution
This blog is a component of English 876: Seminar in Media Culture: Surrealism & Revolution at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Weekly posts will consider the role of surrealism in creating...
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Can art be subversive?
Size is important. Or at least, the consideration of comparisons, exaggerations and miniatures, reflected realities. When I think of political art, I think first of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, the giant...
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cream city review @ AWP
Next week I’ll be at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Washington, D.C. I’m looking forward to attending some great panels (like “The Animal That Therefore I Am:...
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The Body is a Stage, a Theater of Light
“We need above all a theater that wakes us up: nerves and heart” (Artaud 84). In “The Theater and Its Double, “ Artaud describes a kind of theater that engages its audience on a bodily level. The...
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The Embodiment of Revolutionary Writing
We might have coupled In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment Or broken flesh with one another At the profane communion table Where wine is spill’t on promiscuous lips We might have given birth to a...
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“That fire is in your eyes, and in mine”
“When we remember the experience of reading a book, we imagine a continuous unfolding of images.” (What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund) In Nadja, Andre Breton presents the story of his...
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