by RS Admin | Jun 12, 2017
Seasoned writer or a newcomer, workshops are great places helping you see needs improvement from fresh perspectives. However, there are a few things you need to be aware of before you get into one. Don’t Share a Piece Without a Middle In my final year of...
by RS Admin | Jun 5, 2017
Meridian Kathleen Jesme Tupelo Press September 2012 ISBN: 978-1-936797-18-9 40 pages Reviewed by DEBBIE JOHNSON-HILL I left the cemetery knee-deep the snow laying a wreath and then blotting it. (3) In the brief space of two stanzas, readers are introduced to the...
by RS Admin | May 22, 2017
Throughout my college career as a creative writing major, I’ve been taught to read as a writer. Instead of simply enjoying a story for what it is, I look at it with a magnifying glass in hand, trying to decipher what the author has done and how. Once you can identify...
by runestone admin | May 15, 2017
1. Young Chicago Authors (Chicago, IL) YCA is the nonprofit birthplace of “Louder Than A Bomb,” now recognized as the largest youth slam in the world. YCA provides a variety of free programs for young writers such as weekly open mics, and poetry/hip hop workshops. YCA...
by RS Admin | May 8, 2017
Perfectly Good White Boy Carrie Mesrobian Carolrhoda LAB 2014 ISBN 9781467734806 304 pages Reviewed by GRANT BRENGMAN Writer of the best book of 2013 according to Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly, Carrie Mesrobian excellently renders the high school party life,...
by RS Admin | May 1, 2017
In order to represent the diversity of our world, writers should strive to try to increase the diversity in the casts they write. It’s not that every story ever written from now has to be about a certain marginalized group, it’s just something the literary community...
