Readers, meet another of the contributor’s to (Her)oics:Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Nikki Kallio. Nikki’s writing is rich and lyrical. Her essay in the anthology, Cold Front, gives us a glimpse into her experience of facing the pandemic in the Midwest with her parents, having recently finished cancer treatments. Nikki’s creative work has appeared…
The Untold Story #3
Moms have dreams, desires, and wants too, and it’s healthy for children to witness how we go about fulfilling those
The Untold Story #2
E.K. Bayer The (Her)oics Anthology will be out with Regal House’s Pact Press March 11, 2021(!) I’m excited to share more details about our fabulous contributors in this blog series about writers, The Untold Story. Today we meet E.K. Bayer, a writer and mother who got a new job with the pandemic: home-school teacher to twin boys. She shares…
The Untold Story #1
Because at a time when we still must isolate physically, stories can help us stay connected.
Productivity tips for the Apocalypse
“So, you aren’t being as productive as you had hoped during the apocalypse?” This is literally what I say to clients who somehow feel they aren’t accomplishing enough. If life was a video game, the initial world we had all been playing in dissolved in front of our eyes in early March. A new world…
Updates August 2020
New Moon Today, and new information to share: (Her)oics Anthology is off to the presses, to be released in March 2021. Fall writing classes: Novel Writing Class has begun. Non-fiction classes start in October. Email me for more information. Special Fundraiser Workshop to support paying the Anthology Contributors- September 20, 4-6 PM Zoom. Details. Other…
(Her)oic
Call for Submission (Her)oic will to be published by Pact Press. (Regal House Publishing). We welcome submissions from women writers across the country (US). The purpose of this anthology is to explore the impact of COVID-19 on women in America. The anthology will record and share diverse perspectives, highlight how COVID-19 impacts women across the country…
Circus 2020
Circus 2020 This is my comfort, then. The tattered red robe never worn so much. The tea grown tepid in my constant distraction. The dogs’ deep existential sigh, Her head lolling in my lap. She eyes the rabbits who roam so free out the window. Envious, yet too lazy to rise and bark fruitlessly at…
Holy Tea and Me.
Holy Tea and Me. Joanell Serra Christian Women’s Club meeting, Tuesday 10 AM is written in child-like letters on our family chalkboard. My sister points it out to us at dinner, proud of her efficiency when she took the call earlier, from our neighbor, Mrs. Moore. My mother slides pork chops onto our plates and…
Prose Poem, March, Published today
Burningword Literary Magazine APRIL 2019 | NONFICTION | 0 COMMENTS March As in, pick up your mud-crusted boots and move along. Forward, onward. Stopping to ponder one’s thoughts could lead to a frozen death, a swampy drowning. March As in, the January memory of one million bodies filling the DC green (not green at all), the wind cold and…