It’s easier to get started on a project with a good start on getting started. Getting one foot in the door is crucial for anyone trying to make it into the guarded world of academia, a world historically shaped by exclusivity and discrimination, and grants are that...
Nonfiction can take many forms, and forming nonfiction needs the right guide. If writing and finishing fiction is difficult, then writing nonfiction seems to be an even steeper uphill battle: the right topic that will engage readers, the necessary research and...
There’s no better place to look for scares than real life. Hell Put to Shame: Thirteenth Amendment, Schmirteenth Amendment—at least, that was how white Southerners would have it after the Civil War and did have it. The injustice of slavery was in many ways simply...
Mixing business, personal or professional, with pleasure has never been so easy. Writing is to some degree associated with stress, especially for those who consider it to be just the same as any “regular” job: demanding, with no guarantee of success, a struggle with...
Book Review Ignorance is not an excuse for a lack of representation, especially with a book like this. “Identity” is one of the most fascinating and frequently explored concepts in fiction, whether it’s at the forefront of a coming-of-age story, in the background as a...
Judith Jones’ inconspicuous touch but enduring work in publishing. Judith Jones started her career in publishing at seventeen years old and continued to work for almost seventy years. Her professional life saw sweeping changes across the world of publishing, and,...
