Write With Me! Study Hall, Monday, May 30, 2016: You’re Elected
So what are your Memorial Day plans? Will you be grilling? Parading? Visiting a gravesite?
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Whatever your plans, I hope you make time also for some wool-gathering, some relaxing, and some work on your writing, as well.
After all, if the writers don’t stop to smell the flowers . . .
Check out those blooms! (Blooms?) Photo by Anna Smith
. . . if we don’t notice and chronicle the details . . .
Catch all the action! Photo by Anna Smith
. . . who will?
Today I’m trying to finish a short story for an anthology by Romani women writers that I’m quite excited about. I need to deepen the point of view with some internal bits and underscore the main idea with more description.
Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.