I wasn’t able to go to the Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc. (OWFI) writing conference earlier this month. I’ve been several times in prior years, and I always get something out of it. (See here and here for earlier posts about OWFI conferences.) But I did submit several pieces to the […]
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Lessons from My First Writing Conference
I started my life as a writer in early 2007, so I’ve now been trying to develop my skills at writing fiction and creative nonfiction for a little more than a decade. I recently pulled out my journal volume from ten years ago, wanting to get a sense of how […]
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As I wrote recently, reading has always been very important to me. I didn’t know when I wrote my post two weeks ago about my mother reading to me that November is Family Read Aloud Month, nor that the Kansas City Public Library is working with Mayor Sly James on an initiative […]
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