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This past weekend, my husband took our kids to Colorado. I was sad to miss the mini-vacation he planned—horseback riding with the kids in Pagosa Springs and mountainside fun in Durango and Purgatory—but I wanted to finish the second draft of my memoir manuscript. I wanted to stop saying, “I am writing a book.” I…
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I knew why I submitted my essay “The Performance” to the “Haunted” issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review, but I wasn’t positive the story would resonate as a haunting. The central conflict in the story, like my book, is internal. The essay explores how I feel haunted by my relationship with my mother as I parent…
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After more than a decade of revising and retooling, an essay I wrote will finally be published in a literary journal this winter. I wrote the first iteration of this essay for a grad school workshop–and I graduated in 2007–that gives you an idea of how long I’ve been working on it. Probably fifteen years.…
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Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: By Jennifer Jordán Schaller Even though self-compassion is not my strongest trait, I was able to figure out how to characterize myself in my memoir manuscript after reflecting on my writing using a few steps. My manuscript explores the effect of trauma on the ability of the protagonist, that’s…
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I have a poem up at Tiny Seed Literary Journal. It’s the first poem I’ve sent out in a while. I started writing this ode with my students 💜 during an in-class exercise. The poem is actually about this tree: https://youtu.be/NfaqWw5aEu8 Tiny Seed Literary Journal Out of pine-crusted hill, where wild turkeys once galumphed from…
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Originally posted on BAD MOUTH / words & art & music: The next installment of the Bad Mouth Reading Series features a rockstar line-up of writers and music, featuring Cathy Strisik, Christina Yovovich, Greg Martin, and musician Zack Freeman. Friend of Bad Mouth, Jennifer Jordán Schaller interviewed the smart and compassionate human Greg Martin to…
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