While I’m Not Writing
So. Downtime. You know. That time when no matter how much you scream at yourself, you simply cannot write anything worth adding to your umpteenth novelpoemdippitydo. I also have spoonie things thrown...
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Natasha Orme Author Name: KD Rose Website: https://authorkdrose.wordpress.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/authorkdrose?ref=hl Twitter Handle: @kdrose1 Title of Novel: The Brevity of Twit,...
View ArticleComing Soon! By K.M. Hodge and Melissa Storm!
It’s time to come clean, ya’ll. So I’ll just come right out and say it: I’ve got a new series coming out (Book Cellar Mystery Series)!! The first book in the series, “Walker Texas Wife” can be found...
View ArticleRetrace Your Steps When Writing A Memoir Of Past Trauma
Be sure to check out this fantastic guest post by Tony Held! Writing a memoir about a past trauma you endured can be very therapeutic, enabling you to put your past into perspective and (hopefully)...
View ArticlePoem Accepted!
One of my poems that I submitted has just been accepted by The Stray Branch for publication in their Fall/Winter 2016 issue! “Founded in January 2008 by Debbie Berk, The Stray Branch is a print...
View ArticleBrilliant Article in Tin House
On Pandering An Essay by Claire Watkins Let’s punch up. Let us not make people at the margins into scouts or spies for the mainstream. Let us stop asking people to speak for the entire cacophonic...
View ArticleConversations From Claire Watkins Essay Have Emerged
Claire Vaye Watkins’ “On Pandering” Describes a Specific Experience of Writing and Gender, But Has the Power to Start a Broader Conversation By Alison Herman November 24, 2015 Claire Vaye Watkins’ “On...
View ArticlePublishing … and Other Forms of Insanity: 33 Writing Contests in January – No...
33 Writing Contests in January – No entry fees The new year brings a host of fresh writing contests with genres that cover the gamut from poetry, essays, and creative non-fiction, to short stories and...
View ArticleRead This Ongoing Discussion of Genre vs. Literary Popularity
I am directing you all here because like any article that hits a nerve, I keep receiving comments back and forth (real ones in discussion not troll stuff) weeks after the original article aired. The...
View ArticleStory Prize Finalists
All men. All white. All wrong. Lit has a long way to go. -KD ETA: Considering I was chastised by the contest director I will add this: I am not at all a gender or ethnicity Nazi. However, I do think...
View ArticleConversations
My Words along with the Amazing Art of blind artist George Redhawk showcased on Creative Thresholds Creative Thresholds by K.D. Rose K.D. would like to thank the incredible artist George RedHawk...
View ArticleA Brand New World is Coming
Wow. Check out this article. LINK http://lithub.com/virtual-reality-is-in-desperate-need-of-real-storytellers/
View Article33 Commonly Misunderstood Words & Phrases Infographic…
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View ArticleThe Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
The New Yorker LINK http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-fantastic-ursula-k-le-guin October 17, 2016 Issue The literary mainstream once relegated her work to the margins. Then she...
View ArticleA Worthwhile Read (It made me cry)
Samir Abady for BuzzFeed News <!– I walk to connect with the city, but also to connect with other immigrants who pursue home the way I do — step by step. Garnette Cadogan O New York, New York,...
View ArticleNine New Lit Mags You Need to Read
VIA Poets and Writers Magazine LINK http://www.pw.org/content/nine_new_lit_mags_you_need_to_read by Staff 10.12.16 The world of literary magazines is constantly changing, forever evolving, as today’s...
View ArticleSubmission Strategies
The Masters Review Blog Nov 10 Submission Strategies Submit with abandon? Send out a story that’s already received 20 rejections? Keep going? Call it quits? Should you send an edited piece to a...
View ArticleThe Good Rejections
Well, at least I can say I’ve made it to the top tier of rejection letters. I’ve had glowing accounts of my work, my voice, and the knowledge that it made it to the final round, but in all these cases,...
View ArticleThe Day Has Finally Come
The day has finally come! BlazeVOX Journal Fall 2016 is out with two of my poems in it. Just click on the link to read tons of good poetry, fiction and much more! I am proud they accepted two of my...
View ArticleEntered into a Few Contests
Here is one contest I entered, with my short-story shown. LINK: https://americymru.net/community/forum/west-coast-eisteddfod-online-short-story-competition-2016/3140/the-empath-by-kd-rose They have a...
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