Teachers, send us your best! porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit

Thanks for reposting @fiveminutelit.bsky.social Somehow, decades later, this lovely desk ended up across the country in my sister’s basement.

Delighted to have this CNF micro in @fiveminutelit.bsky.social today. www.fiveminutelit.com/comfort-wear

Tonight, somewhere, a writer sits alone but isn't lonely. We're all feeding the same fire, tending the same light. Every story you write joins a constellation of voices, each of us holding up our own small truth until, together, we illuminate the whole dark sky.

“When you are writing, you're trying to find out something which you don't know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don't want to know, what you don't want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.” -- James Baldwin

Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire. #quote W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)

On some days, this sounds about right..

Another highlight from the American Writers Museum today. I have given up so many times, but always creep back.

It’s Christmas in 4 days, the cardinals are frolicking on snow-covered branches, and Santa may leave me some new books under the tree!

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus Happy Solstice everyone!

An excellent holiday reminder…

This week's reading is an amazing poem by @tarnwilson.bsky.social "Welcome, First Year High School Teacher" www.porcupineliterary.com/post/welcome...

“I sprinkle in things/they want to learn/between where commas go…” Wonderful poem about teaching by Elizabeth Burton up at @porcupinelit.bsky.social www.porcupineliterary.com/post/what-we...

Welcome to our new EIC @porcupinelit.bsky.social

Thrilled to get an essay acceptance for a 9-month old submission. A happy giving of birth indeed!

I do love my community library, brimming with books, and which also local writer readings, book clubs and writing workshops too.

The oldest of my Christmas decorations. Although we lost Mom 12 years ago, her ceramic tree and spirit still brighten our home.

Making sure the literary community over here sees this news on Twitter from Pidgeonholes, a lit mag I have always admired & enjoyed. 🧡

Just reviewed some submission guidelines and realized I need to cut another 70 words from my personal essay draft. Hone and polish and kill a few darlings.

Love how writers are flocking to this great blue beyond. Hope there’s more engagement soon. Links to great CNF. Sharing of craft tips and submission angst . Reflections on the writing life.

This was such a powerful and brave piece of writing…

Flash CNF and micro memoir need power verbs too…

Wrestling today with the last line in a micro-memoir. Compression means every word must do hard work.

In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words. www.short-reads.org/there-was-a-... #flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir

So happy to see more and more writers and lit mags showing up here!

On motive “The nonfictionist's motive is always, at bottom, a desire to understand the information with which she's confronted, to uncover its shape, to follow where it leads her.” -Robert Root. #cnf #essayists

Such raw, honest, powerful words of love from @writesloud.bsky.social

And between our different and changing selves.

The last line of this CNF micro… www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...

Such a strange way to greet the New Year in Montreal. The only snow I see is on my new calendar page.

Reflecting back on 2023. Thrilled to have essays in The Sunlight Press and @sugarsugarsaltlit.bsky.social. Love working as an assistant CNF editor at @porcupinelit.bsky.social My first time as a judge, for Five Minutes CNF micro contest. And grateful to encounter familiar and new writers here.

Hello, fellow writers here in the great blue beyond. I took a great generative workshop with Susan Olding in the fall. Still honing and polishing (fussing? overthinking?) two essays for submission.