Tag: #amwriting

The Writer’s Handful with Terry H. Watkins

Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to! Today we hear from Terry H. Watkins, whose brand new and affecting novel, Darling Girl, will celebrate its book birthday this week. Kirkus Reviews had lots of good things to say about this coming of age story, including this: “a powerful drama that impressively manages to both […]

The Writer’s Handful with Sarah Ward

Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to! Today’s Writer’s Handful is a conversation with Vermont writer, Sarah Ward, whose new book, Aesop Lake, was just released in paperback from Green Writers Press. This young adult novel is no light-hearted romp among the unicorns and fields of daisies, but instead tells a story […]

TBT: Wagon Wheels Day Camp

First day of camp; I was seven, Roger nine. We wore matching sneakers. I wished we were twins; in a couple of years I would cut my hair short and dress like a boy sometimes, hoping people thought we were. We waited for the bus each morning at the end of our driveway on Greenwood […]

The Writer’s Handful With Justin O’Brien

Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to Fifty years ago this summer, the Democratic National Convention came to Chicago. I was just a little girl in 1968, but I remember watching this on our black and white television: the boisterous goings-on inside the convention center, and the scary, dangerous goings-on outside in […]

Beautiful Sentences #21 ~ Carson McCullers

“Noises at twilight had a blurred sound, and they lingered: the slam of a screen door down the street, voices of children, the whir of a lawnmower from a yard somewhere.” -Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding