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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 […]
Making the argument
Posted on September 5, 2014 Leave a Comment
In the Spring 2011 issue of the bible of creative nonfiction, the journal Creative Nonfiction, Phillip Lopate explores whether the essay is “exploration or argument,” ultimately deciding that the best creative nonfiction essays do, in fact, make an argument, even if implicitly. And he says that teachers of creative nonfiction are at a disadvantage in […]
Amanda Morris, Ph.D. 