Just your average daily life stuff of a middle aged, lesbian writer.
I’m interrupting this space where I usually post “5 Questions With…” to write about a couple of things that happened in my life this week. First, I was awarded a grant to write my next novel from the Canada Council for the Arts!. As part of the condition of the grant, I’ll be spending two …
How do you decide which writing conference to go to? I’m so excited to get to spend time at three conferences this summer/fall. In July, I’m going to the Golden Crown Literary Society conference in Denver. There, I’ll be teaching a class, sitting on a panel, maybe doing an author reading from my forthcoming novella-in-flash, …
I’ve long said that comparison is a form of self-harm. We are all on our own journeys and comparing ourselves to others can lead to heartache, especially when we don’t take into account that we have no idea of all the back story that led to where they are now. When I win a contest …
I know people like to start making New Year’s resolutions this time of year. I’ve not been immune to that myself – but over the past few years, I’ve used December as kind of a hibernation month. It’s dark, it’s cold, and I’m on break from both teaching and studenting. (Though, of course, with this …
I wrote a piece a couple months ago for the Off Topic Publishing Creative Non-Fiction contest. I don’t usually submit to CNF contests because I tend to try to stick with fiction. There’s something less scary about fiction, even when you’re drawing sharply from your own life, as I did with my novella-in-flash, The Clothes …
Finnian Burnett 