A Literary Journal for Writing Teachers
I attended the Appalachian Writer’s Conference held at the Historic Boone Tavern in Berea, KY the first week of September, had a wonderful time, and started seeing one of my dreams come true. I entered the memoir category of the conference’s writing competition, the Appy Inkwell Awards, and won first place for my teaching memoir,…
It’s getting real y’all! I never would have thought a year ago that I would be having these early retirement adventures. On Monday, I leave for the Appalachian Writer’s Conference in Berea, Kentucky. It’s my first time going to Berea and the first time to this conference, so I’m excited. Two of my teacher friends…
I completed my first year of retirement on August 1. It’s been quite a year. I haven’t reached all my goals, but I have made progress and had some happy and unexpected surprises. The biggest one I can’t reveal publicly yet, but come back on September 6, and I will give you all the juicy…
Due to a family medical emergency, I was disappointed that I didn’t get to sit on the Slush Pile panel at the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s spring conference as I had announced. However, I was able to present to the Network’s Durham-Orange County group via Zoom on April 23 to talk about using memoir writing…
You can order print copies of the 2024 Spring~Summer edition of Teach. Write. at Lulu.com. Here is the link. The publication of the print copy is always great, but one more exciting thing is coming up that some of you might be interested in, especially if you live in North Carolina. I’m going to be a…
The Revised Online version of the 2024 Spring~Summer edition of Teach. Write. is now available. A link to purchase the print version should appear soon. Later today, if all goes well
The online version of Teach. Write. for spring/summer 2024 is now available at this link: Spring~Summer 2024. The print version will be available for purchase Monday, April 8. I will post a link here. As always, editing this journal is one of the joys of my life. I began it in the fall of 2017…
Just heard that Teach. Write. has been added to NewPages’ Big List. According to NewPages website, the Big List “features a vetted list of more than 1,600 online, print, and electronic literary journals covering a wide variety of genres, themes, and styles.” Another step forward for Teach. Write. The current issue is now out in…
Teach. Write. is an online journal, but I like to make print copies available for those who would like to purchase them. I use lulu.com, a print-on-demand service. Here is the link if you would like to purchase a print copy: Fall~Winter 2023 Submissions are now open for the Spring~Summer 2024 issue. I welcome the…
The Fall~Winter 2023 edition of Teach. Write. has been a joy to put together. I feel honored that so many writers have trusted me with their work. I also love the way that every edition just seems to fall into place. For example, many months ago, I chose the theme for the photos in this…