Our own life narrative is a book that supposedly lives within each of us. The most frequent reason people begin writing is the impulse to capture that tale on paper. All across the world, adult literacy programs and elder centers…
“A personal essay is ‘all over the map’. There’s nothing you can’t do with it. No subject matter is forbidden, no structure is prescribed. You get to make up your own form every time.” Annie Dillard, To Fashion a Text,…
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn” -Ernest Hemingway (1991) Flash fiction is not a recent discovery in the world of literature. It has been around for generations, its genres evolving from micro-fiction and short short-stories. As a writer and…
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all…
I have always found that short stories offer readers more than just a quick feast of literature. When written right and read properly, short stories hold a likeness to fireworks that explode in front of us with captivating imagery, prose…
“It was a joy. Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.” Ham…
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” From Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson (1891) “But there are moments, walking, when…