by Rowan | Jan 17, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Rituals Every morning I get up at way-too-early-for-the-West-Coast, because I have East Coast clients that want to have meetings at a reasonable time by their schedule. I hit snooze exactly once. The second time Lizzo informs me that she just took a DNA test, I turn...
by Rowan | Jan 10, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Attitude is key Kidding. I hate that crap. Attitude won’t improve your pay scale (except perhaps, assuming your workplace is committed to fairness and not at all affected by systemic misogyny or racism even unconsciously), your access to healthcare, or your odds...
by Rowan | Jan 3, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
I need a break to recover from my break This can be a rough time of year to be a writer, what with the apocalyptic fires and the assassinations. What, you thought I meant the holidays? Those are over. But the world keeps tumbling on, and one of my jobs is to stay...
by Rowan | Dec 27, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Habari gani? Kujichagulia It’s the second day of Kwanzaa, where I am. Depending on your time zone and country, it might be something else for you. I’m sitting here writing the last winners’ post of the year and thinking about the ways we celebrate...
by Rowan | Dec 20, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Gimme a Break My biggest annual project for my biggest client just happens to fall right at the time of the year that everyone wants to hang out because they have… a break. I’m not sure what that is, actually, at this point, at the end of like my 20th...
by Rowan | Dec 13, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Always Winter, and Never Christmas The first book I remember analyzing was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, after my mother took it out of my hands — I must have been all of nine, I think — and said scornfully “You know Aslan is just Jesus,...
