It’s that time of year, when we resolve to do better when we change out the wall calendar in a…
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This week, we’re speaking with Stephanie Elliot, the author of young adult novel SAD PERFECT (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). SAD…
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as…
All of my writing mentors have at one point said the same thing: Don’t give up. Keep Writing. When you’re…
I’m so thrilled to welcome my friend Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar to the Debutante Ball this week! Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar is…
I’m not a person who tends to dispense a lot of advice. I can tell myself that this…
Before I decided to write my first novel, I never thought average people from average places doing average things could…
Missing my poetry-mom Lucille Clifton especially today. Here she is reading aloud a poem of hers that I love. Until I…
I’m so thrilled to welcome Cinelle Barnes to the Debutante Ball this week! Cinelle Barnes is an essayist, memoirist, and…
I remember when I went to my writing group after my agent got the offer from…