Diverging into crevices, rotting away, hidden. An intellectual decay, a sophisticated savage, deploring for substance, my sustenance. Longing for a cover to devour, for a …
Northern Lights by Jodie Carpenter
“Northern Lights” is one of the October Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. Finally, after a lot of debating …
Tips for Overcoming Anxiety
In the museum of emotions, anxiety is the painting featuring a contracted face with drooping eyebrows and the color of fear on the cheeks. Although …
Svetlana Alexievich: A Woman of Heartrending Prose
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature this year went to a woman named Svetlana Alexievich — one of fourteen to ever win the annual award in more …
Day 307
NaNoWriMo is lovely. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write an entire novel in a month. Are you up for the challenge? If so, sign up …
November Writing Challenge
Welcome, Germies, to this month’s writing challenge! This challenge will begin today and will end November 30th. However, you are welcome to come back anytime to …
Writing as an Outlet: An Interview with Tonya Ingram
Depression can sneak up behind you silently, encompass you, drown you, all the while you’re crying on your bedroom floor thinking, What the hell is …
How a Women’s Magazine Course Is an Inspiration to Young Female Writers
This fall, former editor-in-chief of The Boston Globe Magazine, Susanne Althoff, left her career in publishing to teach students at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Althoff had been …
Surviving Your First College Papers
September is a whirlwind of a month for new college students. You spent the entire summer planning, packing, and saying goodbye to your old life. …