fiction

  • Congratulations! You failed!

    Congratulations! You failed!

    If there’s anything consistent about the creative life, it’s that you will get rejected. A lot. I’m sure you know that already, but probably, when you first started sending out work, a part of you assumed that wouldn’t apply to you. The first time I sent out a story, I had this fantasy–we all had…

  • Waiting for a Sign.

    When I first decided to start teaching classes independently, I had a long phone conference with my teaching mentor, Sarah Selecky. She told me that in her more than 10 years of teaching independently, the one thing she’s found over and over again is that despite weeks of promoting the class, everyone signs up at…