THE END 🖋️ Wrote those lines at the end of the latest draft of my novel yesterday in preparation for my final year at @umkc.bsky.social . Feels good, feels right. Even the weather cooled off to congratulate me. 😄 Bring it on, fall. 🍁

Once again, the authors at my @kclibrary.bsky.social writing class knocked me out with their talent and insight. Grateful to be teaching here. ❤️ Visit kclibrary.org/wfr for full class list.

Honored to appear in @pleiadesmag.bsky.social this spring. This story has alternately bewitched and disturbed me. I hope you enjoy. 🙏🏻

I received the Crystal Field Poetry Scholarship from The Writer’s Place of KC. Part of that honor was a reading at their venue last week. 🙏 Thx to Dr. Bar’s grad workshop for the assist to my poetry skills. 😁 📸: @maritza4770.bsky.social @alextretbar.bsky.social @mrscboogie.bsky.social

Last writing class of the semester at @kclibrary.bsky.social , and it was amazing! These writers inspired me with their stories. ✍🏻

Writing fun @kclibrary.bsky.social this afternoon! Love helping others tell their stories! 📖

If you’re in KC on 4/17, don’t miss! (Free) RSVP required at link in OP.

Creative writing class at the @kclibrary.bsky.social with these amazing writers: the perfect way to spend Saturday afternoon. Join us next time! linktr.ee/writersforreaders

✏️Grateful for the chance to collaborate with these wonderful souls at KC Public Library & UMKC’s Writers for Readers classes today. You guys, there is almost no greater thrill for me than being in a room with 17 other writers and talking about narrative. Charges my creative batteries every time. ⚡️

My story “Divinity” appears in @satevepost.bsky.social today! Link in bio.

It’s a little Christmas in March with our latest #NewFictionFriday story, Brandon Allen’s “Divinity,” in which a young boy searches for a truth he believes his family is keeping from him.

An unexpected surprise coming here this Friday, 3/7/25.

Aaaand, we’re back! Free creative writing classes at @kclibrary.bsky.social all this semester (full schedule at link in bio). Love teaching others ways to tell their story. 📚

Tucson, southern Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico, you stole part of my heart. Until next time… 🌵

Past, present, and future. 🚂 Reading Steinbeck’s East of Eden in a Bisbee, AZ coffee shop. Bookmark from Commonplace Books in Edmond, OK, (our former hometown). Researching/dreaming of the novel I’m working on set in the borderlands. It’s good to be alive. ☀️ #bisbeeAZ #novelwriting

Writing fiction is strange. You start with an idea, which leads to all kinds of unexpected places. I didn’t think a story about the runaway son of a Tucson dentist would lead me to a Love’s truck stop in Benson, AZ., but it did. #novel #novelwriting #novelresearch #tucson #southwest

¡Buenas tardes desde Nogales, Sonora, México! 🇲🇽 My friend Angel met me for a few hours across the border. Beautiful city, amazing food and people.

Chilly layover in Denver. Good thing I’m headed to Tucson. #novelresearch #novelwriting

My sister-in-law got me a scavenger hunt at a local bookstore for Christmas. My reward for finding all the books on this list was 2 books. Happiness can be bought! 😁📚

Spent some quality literary (& feline) time at Ernest Hemingway‘s home. 🐾 The cats are descendants of a 6-toed cat Hemingway was given by a ship’s captain and some today have 6 toes.

My short story, “Jordan,” has been accepted for publication by @pleiadesmag.bsky.social ! I couldn’t be more excited to debut in this superb literary journal. (Also 📸: Over-The-Rhine in Cincinnati, one of the story’s settings, which I had the privilege to visit a few weeks ago when it snowed.)