Today’s blog post comes from Gwen Hart, whose poems “Flight of the Six Wild Turkeys” and “Life in the Circus” are featured in our newly published Issue 15: Desire.  Uh-oh, you’ve graduated, and you no longer have a writing workshop to go to. Don’t despair....

In my MFA program we’re required to write a critical paper. It’s meant to combine issues of social justice with literature. Even as a long time reader and writer, I had never truly thought of literature as an instrument of social change. But once I started looking, I couldn’t stop....

Today’s guest post is by Emma Rasmussen. Her creative nonfiction piece,”Expensive Sex,” appears in the Danger issue of The Quotable. She lives in London. It’s the chair’s fault I can’t write. It’s an absurd choice. The seat is so high my thighs cut into the little...

Today’s guest blog comes from Brian Druckenmiller. As my story “Mail” is set for publication in Issue #14 of The Quotable, I thought it best to address an issue concerning augury—a major component of my piece, but not in the piece’s creation. Let me start by making this clear:...

Today’s guest post is by Susan Frith. Waiting for Story   I was 13 when I got my ears pierced. The lady at the mall told me to keep the hypoallergenic studs in place for six weeks, but I couldn’t wait that long.  Eager to advertise my rite of passage, I swapped out my sensible...

Today’s guest post is by Lauren Camp, whose poems “Walking” and “Empty and Full” appear in The Quotable Issue 13, themed “Luck.” I teach very accomplished adults about writing. This doesn’t mean teaching them how to write creatively, so much as...

Today’s guest post is by Adam Cooper, whose poems “The Sage on His Mountain” and “Backbone” appear in Issue 13 of The Quotable. I would never call myself a writer: I simply don’t write enough to warrant the title.  Although I’ve been writing off and on...

Today’s guest post is from David Walker, whose poem “Upon Visiting my Father” will appear in Issue 13, themed “Luck.” As a poet, you believe in freedom of expression in its many forms. You know what you like and dislike, but you would never want to put...

Today’s guest post comes from author, Emily DeLoach. Her first novel, Escaping the Mirror, is now available on Amazon.com. When people ask me what inspired me to write my first novel, Escaping the Mirror, I tell them I’ve had the idea for this novel since I was a teenager.  What I...