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Some thoughts on using dialogue in flash fiction and other story to create moments for your characters to reveal themselves! So not only does dialogue have the potential for creating or revealing these characters, but it also can add escalations or forward movement in the story.

"Now sometimes my arms and my legs don’t feel like my own. But who else’s could they be?" In "The News," this week's miCRo, Laurie Blauner plunges us into an absurdist reality that we slowly come to realize is just reality as we know it. Link in comments.

Please join us for this special reading event! I’d love to see you there!

Join me there? I'll be great, promise! #WritingCommunity #writing

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Creative Reading w/ Joseph Hall, Marjorie Maddox Dr. Jamie+ Marich (she/they) Cecilia Woloch WPSU North Atlantic Books Nat'l Endow f/t Arts The Fulbright Program The Pushcart Prize #poetry #memoir #poetrycommunity #LiteraryArt #conference lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest! Sessions like writing workshop Metaphor at the Root: Generate, Inspire, Activate w/ Holly M. Wendt. Use real objects to create grounded, substantive metaphors and explore generative possibilities. #amwriting lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

Congratulations to all the winners and writers whose stories appeared on the shortlist for WestWord’s 2025 Hermit Crab Flash Prize! I had so much fun reading all the stories presented here and hope you’ll take the time to read and celebrate them too ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/westword/p…

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Necropastoral: Poetry Workshop w/ El Bentivegna, Michelle Duke, Kristen Tetzmann Writing Poetry from Invisible Disabilities w/ Kate Caraballo #poetry #poetrycommunity #amwriting Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

Registration is open for Fall Lit Fest! Creative Readings w/ Molly Fuller Diane Kendig, Robert Miltner, Marion Boyer, Barbara Sabol Cuyahoga Library Kent State Ohio Arts Council VermontStudioCenter Chautauqua Institution University of Michigan Press Acorn Haiku #poetrycommunity #poetry lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

I’m judging the 2025 Akron Poetry Prize. Send your manuscripts, tell your students, friends. Deadline: June 15th #poetry

I always love reading the New York Times Book Review on Sunday morning. But I especially love it when there is a wonderful review of one of my novels. Deepest thanks to the editors at the NYTBR, critic Alida Becker, and Doubleday .

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp How to Make Luck: Writing in Praise of the Ordinary We need to keep finding joy and celebrating gratitude. Grand Canyon Conservancy Academy of American Poets BlackEarthInstitute Prairie Schooner #poetrycommunity lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Writer-blogger Rebecca Moon Ruark in conversation with prose features David Huebert and Sean Prentiss #fiction #creativenonfiction #WritingCommunity Sean Prentiss National Outdoor Book Awards Norwich University lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! Creative Reading w/ Richard Klin, Daniel Lassell, CE Mackenzie, Christopher Sims Daniel Lassell ce mackenzie TRP: The University Press of SHSU Madhouse Press The Porch Lighthouse Writers Workshop #poetry #creativenonfiction #poetrycommunity lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

Excited to be reading at Lit Youngstown this year! Hope to see you there ✨

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Summer of 2021, dancer-writer Renée K. Nicholson and I were chatting on here about dance memoir. I joked, "I feel an anthology coming on." She said, "Let's take this offline." Four years later... #Dance #essays #collection #health #Wellness

Bookfair! After Happy Hour, Brainchild, CLE St U Poetry Ctr, Crisis Chronicles, Dodge, Driftwood, Elizabeth's Bookshop, Eulalia, Last-Picked, Milk & Cake, Neighborhood Bookstore Pdcst, Painted Pebble, POP! Art Bks Culture, Rescue, 7 Kitchens, Wick, Wilkes lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

Small Press Pitching & Publishing w/Jen McConnell Doron, Kim Jacobs-Beck Small presses are a wonderful way to get published. No agent, creative control, niche genres. Cons: author does most marketing #WritingCommunity Milk and Cake Press RoadSidePress lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…

Fall Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! A close look at writer intent Writing for the Stage w/ Lilace Mellin Guignard, Judith Sornberger What the Writer Thinks They Wrote w/ Cherise Benton Shanti Arts Wilkes University Creative Writing #WritingCommmunity #amwriting lityoungstown.org/2025-festival-…