Green-Eyed Monster
by Liz Garcia · October 22, 2026Of all the obstacles I could list that prevent me from writing as often as I’d like (children, fatigue, the need to make money), the one [...]
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How Movies Ruined Fiction Writers
by Kelly Kurtzhals · July 23, 2026One of my first fiction professors, Dr. Kate Haake, once said: “movies are better than fiction. Stop trying to make your fiction do what movies do,” [...]
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Some Thoughts on Inspiration
by Nathaniel Meals · April 28, 2026Like everyone else, I come to writing from a varied background. I’ve had many interests over the years, most recently rock climbing, which I picked up [...]
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When a block is not a block
by Liz Garcia · March 12, 2026“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” – Samuel BeckettThis is a version of that old freewriting exercise in which, when you can’t think of anything [...]
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On Walking, Wordsworth, and the Creative Spark
by Rachel PIttman · February 16, 2026When I was an undergraduate student, one of my Creative Writing professors gave our class an assignment to “go outside.” There were, of course, more [...]
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Duende and Delight
by Eve Clark · May 17, 2025I was a sad nineteen-year-old taking my first poetry workshop when I first read Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Theory and Play of the Duende.” In this piece, [...]
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