I just received my contributor's copies of Post Road Magazine #25. My essay "The Pearl" considers the enduring effects of a teeny tiny thing stuck in a place it doesn't belong. I'm smitten with the issue's cover: I sketched the ear and used it as section dividers. The Post Road team printed it as such,…
A short but significant excerpt from my manuscript appears in the Fall 2013 issue of The Citron Review, live today. Citron is a marvelous journal for short pieces (no more than one thousand words for prose). It's run by Antioch MFA alumni—as a VCFA alum, I have great affinity for the other low-residency MFA programs…
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On this final deadly Monday, my co-author Cheryl Wilder presents her examination of Pride in the writing life, and it's an eye-opener. How stealthy Pride can be, growing powerful and inciting other sins before we realize it. How deadly. I learned a great deal as we imagined, created, and revised this essay series. I learned…
Deadly Monday dawned foggy, but warmed and cleared by the afternoon when I took S. out for a walk. He fell asleep right away, which was unusual since his torticollis makes him nauseous and uncomfortable when strolling. Then I found an open bench in the hood, despite the park being closed since Hurricane Sandy ripped…
Greed is the antithesis of who I am, or at least of how I see myself. So it was mighty uncomfortable to go looking for it in every corner of the writing life and find it in me. I'm more grateful than ever to my co-author Cheryl Wilder and the writing friends we surveyed. I'm especially…
Suzanne Farrell Smith 