A themed tour with Prism Book Tours. Today on The Quotable, we have a guest post by author Althea Kontis who is on a book AND blog tour for her recently published novel, the third in her Woodcutter sister series, “Dearest.” In her post, see how her life and imagination shaped the...
Life After the Writing...
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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....
My Accountability as a...
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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....
Thinking Outside The B...
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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...
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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:...
Waiting for Story
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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...
Lucky You
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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...
Let That Be Enough
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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...
The Composition Crunch
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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...