“I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It’s not that you say, ‘I want to write a science fiction book.’ You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.” —Doris Lessing buff.ly/32E50ip

Substacking again (is that a word?) open.substack.com/pub/whenimwrit…

I've got a new flash fiction in Stirring. stirringlit.com/vol-26-ed-3-f-…

Learn how to create a chilling scene (even/especially if you're not writing horror) through examples from Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Le Guin, Kafka, & Dan Chaon. Join our virtual craft talk with Kyle Winkler this Wednesday evening! litcleveland.org/classes-worksh…

Please visit the PROSE GARDEN zoom Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 2 pm EDT. Registration link in first comment

🎉Announcing Literary Cleveland's Inkubator Writing Conference 🎉 #CleInk24 is one of the 𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧 free writing conferences in the country and this year we have made it 𝗕𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 than ever! Registration opens August 1. inkubator.litcleveland.org

New substack post. whenimwriting.substack.com/p/the-vacation…

“A novel is the only place where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. The reader and the writer make the book together. No other art can capture the essential inwardness of human life.” —Paul Auster buff.ly/494KydA

Vacation reading open.substack.com/pub/whenimwrit…

It's Official: Registration is now open for our free Inkubator Writing Conference!  Spread the word and get your free ticket today. #CleInk24 bit.ly/registerink24

I taught the first of 3 classes on writing climate fiction this morning, which went pretty well. Some amazing writing by the participants. #clifi #climatefiction

Go, Sarah!!

The selfish writer open.substack.com/pub/whenimwrit…

“Men often ask me, Why are your female characters so paranoid? It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.” —Margaret Atwood buff.ly/3q4rkOJ

9 Things No One Told You About Being a Writer open.substack.com/pub/whenimwrit…

We're open for submissions of contemporary fiction, so why not check us out? Please follow the link for guidelines #shortstories #flashfiction #translations #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-gui…

Delighted to be on this list!

“Well, fuck the plot! That is for precocious schoolboys. What matters is the imaginative truth.” —Edna O’Brien buff.ly/49sDKXk

“The weirder, the stranger the book is, and the freer the author has been with it, the harder it may be for the reader, but some readers will get it, and that’s who you’re writing for. And you don’t know who they will be, but you have to take a chance.” —Lorrie Moore

Hey, Clevelanders - I'm going to be talking about cleveland + noir on 9/18 with @susanpetrone, D.M. Pulley, Miesha, Angela Crook (HURT MOUNTAIN MARCH 1, 2024), and [email protected] - check us out at the Shaker Library at 6:30 pm. events.shakerlibrary.org/event/12630654