The Writing Life Category
Rejection, Acceptance, and Opportunity
Posted on October 8, 2015 1 Comment
Yesterday, I received a rejection for a creative nonfiction story that I crafted this summer. It was from a high profile and very competitive journal. But that’s okay. It’s okay because they received over 550 stories in response to their call, and I’m a writer, which means I immediately submitted that same story to four […]
Outreach, writing, and workshops!
Posted on September 24, 2015 Leave a Comment
Greetings, lovely people! Finding time to write can be challenging when your job and personal/home life keeps you busy, but we writers find a way! Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with a high school English class about contemporary Native Americans, which is related to my specialty of Indigenous Rhetorics. Showing these students such […]
Special Post: So you’re going on the academic job market
Posted on September 12, 2015 Leave a Comment
This post is just for those of you in grad school or who are going on the academic job market this year. (If you are a fellow academic or a grad student, please share this widely. This advice is important.) (For the rest of you, academia has a “job season” and it’s right now through […]
Writing is labor
Posted on September 7, 2015 1 Comment
When we think of labor, we often think about unions and steamfitters and autoworkers and construction crews. What about writers? Writing is labor, too. Sitting down to write an essay or fiction story or poem or annual report or academic grant may not require you to wear steel-toed boots and get your hands dirty, but […]
The Best Writing Advice Evah!
Posted on August 26, 2015 Leave a Comment
In response to my crowdsource request for “the best writing advice you have to offer,” here are the results, with a few of my own thrown in for good measure. Because advice is always best when passed along. 🙂 1. “Revising is easier than writing. Start somewhere. Anywhere.” 2. “Ever see the film A River […]
Seven Texts to Teach Instead of “Ceremony”
Posted on August 22, 2015 Leave a Comment
I’m over on Teaching Tolerance this week with my suggestions for high school teachers who typically teach Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. Check it out! Seven Texts to Teach Instead of “Ceremony” Also, a quick report on the New Hampshire Writing and Publishing Retreat that just ended yesterday (Friday, August 21, 2015): I’m so proud of […]
Join me for a Writing and Publishing Retreat this August!
Posted on June 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
Fellow writers! Please join me for a delightful summer writing vacation this August in New Hampshire. If you write fiction or nonfiction and feel like the publishing industry is this intimidating monolith out there…put those fears aside and come work with me for a week. Better yet, find a writer friend and come together! I […]
Writing News to Know (Week of Feb. 23, 2015)
Posted on February 23, 2015 Leave a Comment
Each week, check this Monday posting for a selection of current calls for submissions, good writing advice from the interwebs, and legit writing job listings. Fear less, do more. Calls for Submissions Lunch Ticket, a literary journal from the MFA community at Antioch University in LA, seeks submissions for its Summer/Fall 2015 issue (Deadline April 30). […]
Amanda Morris, Ph.D. 