Anybody else querying? My latest newsletter: Finding Gratitude in the Query Trenches. Sometimes the waiting teaches us more than the destination. I'm learning what mindful waiting actually means: and why my animals might be the best teachers I have: writingeverything.substack.com/p/finding-gr...

My latest newsletter, about fiction and memoir, and why writing memoir helped me with my novel: writingeverything.substack.com/p/hannah-pit...

What if success was on how well you sleep at night (insomniacs exempt from this one)?

My June newsletter, where I talk about finishing my novel, working with an editor, and starting the search for an agent, is here! Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQP1...

This article explains very clearly why cuts to the Pell Grant program will only hurt our poorest and often, most hardworking, students: www.ccdaily.com/2025/05/stan...

Here's my latest newsletter, about my "origin story" as a writer. What's your origin story? Link: writingeverything.substack.com/p/plastic-ho...

I'd be honored if you'd check out my latest newsletter: "What I Learned from an Abused Horse: And What Vision Boards Have to Do with Hope" writingeverything.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

THE KENDRICK SUPER BOWL CURRICULUM!! 🔥 by Linda J.M. Holloway, Ed.D., NCC & April T. Berry, Ph.D. Legit great stuff here, teachers / professors:

I'd be honored if you would check out my latest newsletter on revising individual poems: writingeverything.substack.com/p/revising-t...

Contributor ‪@eburtonwrites.bsky.social‬ has new flash fiction in South Florida Poetry Journal! It's a flash with a haiku inside! Read "To the Woman Talking to Her Therapist on Speaker at Waffle House" here: https://buff.ly/49bloKJ

Here's my newest newsletter, where I talk about why we need to write a great deal badly in order to write a few things well: writingeverything.substack.com/p/when-okay-...

My latest flash fiction piece, "To the Woman Talking to Her Therapist on Speaker at Waffle House," is up at South Florida Poetry Journal. It includes alternate timelines, imagined conversations, and even an embedded haiku! Link: www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-35-nov...

My fiction chapbook is ready for preorder at Appalachia Book Company! Set in western China, it features flashbacks to Eastern Kentucky and is about love lost, resilience, and the healing power of horses. Link: www.appalachiabook.co/store/p/of-l...

See my latest piece, a micro memoir, up at Good River Review: goodriverreview.com/post/elizabeth-burton

📝 🌟 Ever feel like your creativity well has run dry? In my latest newsletter, we dive into: Why dry spells are normal (even Maya Angelou had them!) How switching genres can reignite your spark 10 unique prompts to kickstart your writing #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritersBlock #WritingTips

📚✍️ Calling all writers! Dive into the craft with 'Writing Everything' newsletter. This month: we're looking at fiction and the art of 'show, don't tell,' with a unique writing prompt to sharpen your skills. Subscribe now and let's write! #WritingCommunity" writingeverything.substack.com

My husband bought me an early birthday present: a one of a kind necklace of sodalite and copper. I love it!

I have a new flash memoir up at Bending Genres today. Thanks so much to the editors and to @avitusbcarle.bsky.social for helpful edits! Here's the link: bendinggenres.com/dark-but-nev...

Out at JMWW today, my flash cnf, "The Mortality of Giants." Thanks to @avitusbcarle.bsky.social for her excellent editing help! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/c...

Out today, in JMWW, a journal I love, is my flash creative nonfiction piece, "The Mortality of Giants." Thanks to the Editors and to Avitus B. Carle for her excellent editing help!https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/creative-nonfiction-the-mortality-of-giants-by-elizabeth-burton/