by Rowan | Jul 14, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners
cough cough IS THIS THING ON? When I went to Outdoor Ed in whatever grade that was, the counselors had a little song they’d sing in the morning at breakfast to shut all the kids up. The theory was that if we all sang along we’d be quiet for thirty seconds...
by Rowan | Jul 7, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Rated C for Courtesy “Okay, but is it R for violence or for sex?” my mom asked, frustrated. She wanted to take us to a movie – I can’t remember which one – because it was well over 100 degrees outside (38+ for my Celsius-reading peeps,...
by Rowan | Jun 30, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners
Pardon my soapbox I’m going to take a minute off from writing about writing, and even writing about winning, to give everyone an important reminder. It’s almost Canada Day, and the 4th of July, and it’s midsummer, and next week is a microprose week,...
by Rowan | Jun 23, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
It’s National Take Your Dog To Work Day! In my life, it’s always take your dog to work day, since my office is in what used to be the living room back when I still had the illusion that I had friends who might come over and sit on the couch and drink a...
by Rowan | Jun 16, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Hello, darlings! This morning a friend challenged us to post a single sentence or paragraph from something we were working on. Trying to do that – to pick out that one perfect sentence among many – is almost the opposite of the old advice to “kill...
by Rowan | Jun 9, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
When it rains, it pours It’s been a bad couple weeks for writing for me; I’m 3/4 of the way through a porch remodel and it’s only intermittently sunny in my city, so my days have been divided between frantically trying to work in the sunny hours,...
