One of my hobbies is doing yoga. I like the portability of it. How it doesn’t really require much equipment. I’ve done yoga on in parks, on rooftops, and even vacant rooms of whatever office building I’m working in at the time.
It’s a great gentle way to counteract my daily hours in front of the computer. Occasionally, a poem will even pop into my head.
Read MoreFrom 400 entries, my little 97 word story “When Water Returns to the Salt Edged Shore” made it into the top 21 of Fractured Lit’s 100 Word Story Mini Contest. So close!
Read MoreI adore lit mags with beautiful artwork, and, in my opinion The Night Heron Barks has some of the best, so I’m thrilled to have a poem “Wiping Windows During a Springtime Storm” in the Winter 2021 issue.
There’s also an audio recording of me reading the poem. If you’ve got 1:27 minutes, then, please check that out as well.
Read MoreI've got a little punk poem about freckles (okay, maybe not the edgiest thing in the world, but still...) in the themed BODY POSITIVTY issue of Versification. Also, my first photo credit (taken at Las Vegas’ Neon Boneyard) is in here too!
Read MoreThere’s so much energy and buzz when a new lit mag kicks off, and I love being a little part of it. I was very honored when my story “As Storms Gather in the Stereo” was picked to be the debut piece that launched Flash Frog. I mean, their motto is “We like our fiction like we like our dart frogs: small, brightly colored, and deadly to the touch.” How cool is that?
Read MoreSo, I’m noticing a theme here. This seems to be the year of finding homes for things that have been hard to place in the past.
After being rejected twelve times (okay, yes, I might be a little stubborn), my poem “A Pink Shatter of Light” has happily settled in at the new Second Chance Lit, a magazine who specializes in taking those pieces that have always been “close, but not quite”.
Read MoreThere are days in this writing journey when, honestly, not much happens. I don’t put words on a page, I don’t hear back from submissions. Things are just…quiet. But then there are days, when wonderful and unexpected things pop up without warning.
Read MoreThanks to a poetry workshop last August which examined the poetry of Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, I’ve been playing around with short forms. In the current world of prose poems, free verse, lyric essays and long poems, I wasn’t sure if there was room for small quiet pieces. I’m slowly learning that there’s a place for everything. Two little poems (6 lines each) found a home at Emerge Literary Journal.
Read MoreI was going to give up on this piece. It’d been rejected 15 times by both literary and speculative fiction magazines. It just didn’t seem to belong in either, I guess. I was ready to either shelve it or put it through some major re-writes. But then, the final place I submitted it to not only accepted it, but made it the feature fiction piece of the issue. Sometimes, the right piece just needs the right home.
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