Does “Because It Really Happened” Make Nonfiction?: An introduction It has been my pleasure to be a worker at Umbrella Factory Magazine. When Umbrella Factory Magazine started up in late 2009, the founding members decided not to give any member of the UFM staff a title other than worker. ItContinue Reading
I am beside myself with delight at the books I’ve endeavored for the spring reading list. For a strange reason, I chose only four books this go around. I think it may have been because I found the winter reading list difficult to execute. But of the four on theContinue Reading
The relationship between the writer and the magazine warrants discussion. From November of 2010 through January of 2011, I shared much of my experience as a fiction editor in my “The Short Story for the Editor” series. In short, that entire series was designed to help writers go from theirContinue Reading
In an absolute fit of urgency, I finally finished The Errors of Fabric. There was no real ceremony on the completion of this project. Perhaps because I know there will be a grip of work to do on it, should I ever open it up again. Needless to say, it’sContinue Reading
There are clouds on the horizon, big fluffy ones. Although it’s sunny today, or at the very least, right now, I know all too well that it will storm soon. It’s not going to be one of those fierce Denver spring storms complete with hail, tornadoes, lightening and thunder. No,Continue Reading
Admittedly, I knew nothing of Hazel Hall. It was a sunny morning, last summer, I was on my way to Anna Banana’s for coffee, when I first saw the house. It was a funny sunny day too. It was warm, nearing hot, and the sun felt more direct than usual.Continue Reading
NW 22nd Pl looking south I waited for the sun. If not the the sun, then I waited for the rain to ease up a little. I’d been meaning to visit the poet’s house for some days. Weeks. The only real holdup was the rain. Here in Portland, Oregon, itContinue Reading
Why blog? Honestly, who cares? I doubt this entry will have a bunch of comments following. It’s questionable if anyone’s really going to read it. So, why blog? Well, I was told that writing about writing is a good thing to do. And, I was told that a working writerContinue Reading
April is upon us. March came and went. February, although an extra day long this year, went by super fast. And still, here I am working on The Errors of Fabric. And to be honest, I haven’t done much work on it since my return from Denver circa February 20th.Continue Reading
Once we joked about the sunshine in Denver. The supposition was that since it is sunny nearly every day of the year there is, never was, and never will be true literature from Denver. The sunshine, maybe. What’s in the water too? But I ask myself, is there, were there, and willContinue Reading