Story Street WritersThe everyday struggle of trying to find time researching undetectable poisons in ancient Mesopotamia while caring for sick children and filing out TPS reports.
by Michele Alouf
Some of my writing friends and I have formed a weekly “therapy” group where we discuss our accomplishments (or lack thereof) during the previous week, craft strategies, creative struggles, and goals for the week ahead. A recurring theme is productivity—how we get stuck, deal with distractions, keep motivated, stay organized, and find ways to write forward.…
In July, my fellow Story Street Writer, Margaret Speck Ogawa, wrote the article, “Get Inspired and Find Your People: Attend a Writers Conference.” After reading about her enriching experiences at events across the country, I decided to try a conference but stay in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia.…
With our Nightmare on Story Street contest announcement today, we thought this would be a good time to publish our interview with Jessica Wooton, the winner of our Summertime Sadness 100-Word Story Contest.
Her story “Slate (Clean)” is a remarkably tight and punctual work.…
Are you looking to expand your writing life? Your writing community? Your exposure to literary agents, editors, and publishers? Writers conferences can provide all of these potentially life-changing benefits and more.
At writers conferences members of the literary world come together to learn, educate, network, and celebrate the magic of writing.…
When my husband was in his final semester of graduate school, his roommate, Steve, was unsuccessfully searching for a job. At a time when rejections were more formal and arrived on embossed letterhead, Steve decided to decorate his apartment with a collage of dismissals, near misses, and best wishes.…
Jack Morgan writes an irregular column on learning to write with brain lesions.
It’s been almost a year since I received my primary progressive multiple sclerosis diagnosis, and anyone who read the first few articles in this column knows that I started my stages of grief deep in a dark place.…
The Akutagawa Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in Japanese literature. It is given to ‘new or rising’ authors writing in Japanese. The award is presented to two works each year – usually. Some years there’s only one winner; some years there are three; some years they don’t award a prize at all; some years they give out four.…