Oregon public schools are in serious crisis mode. I know this isn’t a unique situation. Public education has been undermined by political policy across the nation for years now. (Why does a certain segment of those in power want the …
Lauren Acampora, author of short stories published in The Paris Review, Antioch Review, New England Review, and other journals. Age of kid: Amity, 2 years What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that …
Yesterday I shipped off a freelance proofreading job–my last job until I finish the publisher-requested revisions to The Revolution of Every Day and turn the manuscript back in. Billy and I talked it over and agreed that I need to …
Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, Year of Wonders, March, and others I became a novelist because I had a child. I’d been a foreign correspondent for over a decade, in the Mideast, Africa …
Our girls have moved outside to their coop. I carried them out one by one. I imagine it was the first time any of them had been outside in their lives. It was kind of like chicken graduation. First out …
Emma Wunsch’s short stories have been published in: Lit, The Brooklyn Review, The Bellevue Review, Fugue, J Journal, and Natural Bridge. She is currently revising a YA novel. Age of kids: Georgia 3.5 and Dahlia 22 months What was your …
It happened this morning. It went well. Very well. The only way it could have gone better is if they’d offered me a million bucks and a contract on the spot and a guarantee that I’d win the Pulitzer next …
1. This week, one of my top-choice publishers requested revisions on The Revolution of Every Day. We’ll be talking about it on Tuesday. I’m stuck somewhere between excited and terrified, because I have no idea what changes they’ll ask for, …
Kate Hopper’s first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, has just been released from Viva Editions. Kate teaches online and at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she lives with her family. She blogs at www.motherhoodandwords.com. …
My neighbor said that a few weeks ago, in response to the infodump I’d just delivered about keeping backyard chickens. I hadn’t thought of myself that way, but when he said it, it felt true. I do love to research. …