Welcome to the 5 Questions Series. Each week, I’ll ask five questions of some of my favorite authors, editors, publishers, and other industry professionals. This week, I’m talking with Andrew Shaughnessy. You recently won first place in the Blank Spaces Magazine writing contest. What was your story about and what was the inspiration? I am …
Welcome to the 5 Questions Series. Each week, I’ll ask five questions of some of my favorite authors, editors, publishers, and other industry professionals. This week, I am so happy I got to speak with Vincent Anioke about his upcoming release, writing community, demystifying publishing, and of course, weird birds. You were one of the finalists for …
You know, you have those days (weeks, months) when you think you are the worst writer in the world and no one is ever going to publish you again. Or is that just me? Those weeks when you’ve gotten more rejections than acceptances, or worse, when you haven’t submitted anything in a long while and …
This piece came from one of the excellent workshops I took with author Grace Palmer. The Price of Cookies The boy wandered the aisles of the shop and the clerk watched him. She didn’t watch closely; her feet hurt after seven hours on shift, and she didn’t want to go to the trouble of leaving …
I love these little challenges – 50 word stories, 100 word stories. Here’s a 29 word story I wrote the other day. It had to be about a road trip. Sprawled in the passenger seat, she laughs. “A road trip? But where would we go?” My fingers, aching to touch her face, curl around the …
Finnian Burnett 