I didn’t sit down intending to write my life story or end up in a ball of tears, but that is what happened this afternoon. I didn’t know I had such a talent for making myself cry until I began writing poetry! I began by looking into what writing challenges Vocal Media currently offered. I […]
I wrote an acrostic poem for a poetry challenge on Vocal Media. The word assigned was distraction. Instead of thinking what distraction ( the word itself) means to me and describing it line by line, as I think a lot of acrostic poetry does, I immediately thought back to childhood. I thought of how much
Yesterday I decided to enter three of my poems into the Sappho Prize for Women Poets 2023 Competition on Palette Poetry. Today, I was reading back through some of my poems, and I just submitted three more! Even if I don’t win, or never hear back at all, it feels good to be continuing writing
Check out my short (and I mean short!) story on vocal media. I entered a microfiction challenge, which means a maximum of 100 words. That’s barely a paragraph! Read ‘The Only Way He’d Go‘ over on Vocal and let me know what you think. I haven’t heard back about the NYC Midnight Microfiction challenge, but
What in the world is a chapbook? The term is more commonly known in the UK, it’s a small collection of poetry. Usually no more than 40 pages. I put together most of the poems I wrote for NaPoWriMo2023 along with a few others and submitted my “chapbook” to the Frontier Poetry Breakthrough Chapbook Contest.