Please welcome Ivelisse Rodriguez to the Ball this week! Ivelisse’s debut short story collection, Love War Stories, came out this July to much…
Category: 2018 Debs
I get easily excited about ideas. If you sit me in front of a computer long enough, I will inevitably…
I really want to write a rant to all the devastations of the day: the Kavanaugh vote in the Senate,…
Mahalo to our first four guest authors: Rene Denfeld, Lori Rader-Day, Suzanne Baltsar and Elizabeth Rosner. Please check out their…
The first time I ever felt crushed by rejection was in high school. I was somehow nominated for a months-long…
It has been a rough week in the news, and I imagine that I don’t speak for just me when…
This week’s theme: “balancing writing and work and life” has led me to write: an abridged autobiography, in books and…
This week for The Debutante Ball, we’re sharing our journey to getting a literary agent, so I dug through the…
A Circuitous Route: The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at…
I remember listening to Santana’s “Maria, Maria”, and wondering what the hell kind of Latina I was for not being…