Writerly Roundup

In this month’s essay, Unbricking Jacinda Townsend writes, “I thought I loved chocolate. I thought I loved my college boyfriend’s butt. I thought I loved my fellow Black people. I…

In this month’s essay, Mother Muteness: Writing My Way Out of Silence, Yelizaveta Renfro remembers feeling that her writing was silenced while in the trenches of early motherhood, nursing her…

In this month’s essay, Listing, Erin Levens Cundiff writes of her fascination with stackables–books, lists, or blocks–and how they sustain an emotional need she has for order, organization, and solace.…

In this month’s essay, Motherwriter, Barbara G.S. Hagerty writes about the conflict between her passion as a writer and her role as a mother. She describes her two roles as…

In this month’s essay, When Income Envy Comes Home, Valerie Weaver-Zercher writes about the envy and outrage she felt when her author/husband earned an ordinate sum of money for a…

In this month’s essay, From Laundry to Literature, Cassie Stocks writes about the sheer grit and determination a writer, who wishes to create, must embody. Have you ever felt torn…

In this month’s “Mothering Left to Write,” C. Delia Scarpitti writes about the thrill of being awarded a prestigious grant for her writing. Have you ever received a coveted acceptance…

In this month’s “I Write in the Shower,” Heidi Scrimgeour finds her loyalties stretched between mothering and writing. Have you ever had an incident where your writing made you feel…

In this month’s “Witch,” Sarah Gardner Borden revisits a favorite book series from her childhood. The author discovers that the books not only delight her daughters, but also remain relevant…

In this month’s “Voice: A Study in the Writer’s Art,” Hilary Meyerson describes how she only fully appreciates her muse after she’s started kindergarten. Who or what is your muse?…

In this month’s “An Inheritance From My Mother: Emily Dickinson,” Vivian Morrow Jones writes about how it took many decades for her to understand her mother’s affinity for Dickinson’s work.…