Category: Blog
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My Latest Project
This announcement is about two months overdue, but I wanted to share my latest project with all of you! I (along with two friends) have been releasing a weekly newsletter called The Iron Quill. Loosely inspired by The Federalist Papers, The Iron Quill addresses and shares news, legislation, art, resources, protest information, and our thoughts…
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New Publication!
I’m excited to announce that my poem Confessional appears in Issue 5 of the Orange Couch, which dropped today! Please go check it out, along with all the other awesome contributors! Additionally, I have two more pieces forthcoming this summer, “Way of the Dragonborn” in the inaugural issue of a dreamy little mag called Snoozine,…
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Scaling the Cliff: Submitting to Literary Journals for the First Time
A friend asked me today about getting published in literary journals and magazines, and I want to share my response with all of you. I love helping people get started with getting published, and talk about it often with my friends, so this blog post almost feels past-due. Luckily, the friend who reached out to…
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I’m Back!
Hey folks! I’m back! First, allow me to apologize for the lengthy and sudden absence–I was, unfortunately, too ambitious with my original posting schedule for this blog. Juggling grad school, work, planning for my career, life, and daily blog posts was simply beyond my capabilities. However, I love this blog, and am excited to be…
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Exciting News!
So excited to announce that my flash fiction piece “Honey Hibiscus” appears in Volume 6 of Spare Parts Lit! Please head on over to check out this awesome issue! Thank you Oak! Also… I have a piece forthcoming in Defunct Magazine soon, keep an eye out! On a less exciting note, I owe all of…
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Advertising Revenue is Dying
The key findings of a Tow Report written by Elizabeth Anne Watkins say it all, but there is one in particular that gets to the crux of the matter. “The hyperefficient market for programmatic display ads has driven down their prices, reducing revenue for publishers.” This, combined with the way ads impact the user experience, is killing…
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Content Matters, So Let’s Change the Structural Convention
“[T]he way we structure content says a lot about the values we share.” One argument I have made for many years is that language matters. In an article for The Think Company, Dave Thomas illustrates clearly why. Using The New York Times as an example, Thomas talks about conventions specifically surrounding gender. If we learn to expect that a woman’s…
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SEO Versus Quality Control: Where is the line between optimization and staying afloat?
In the Boston Globe article Confessions of a professional clickbait writer, Ben Kissam touches on some of the controversy surrounding the different approaches to driving traffic. “I’m not paid to write beautiful prose; I’m paid to grab eyeballs.” The article as a whole has a light, almost sarcastic tone. Kissam seems to both criticize the lack…
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Lit Mags and Reading Fees: What is the Solution?
For a number of years now, reading fees have been a hot topic in the writing community. Why should we be paying to be rejected? These fees have become a norm, with many prestigious (and not so prestigious) journals succumbing to relying on the writers looking to be published for their support. Some of these…
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Online Communities
Instead of the normal Tuesday Review, you lovely folks get to enjoy a class assignment examining online communities—kind of like what I’m trying to build here. What makes a community? According to Merriam-Webster: “a unified body of individuals[.]” These individuals may gather because of common interests, geographic location, shared characteristics, and other such similarities. Are…
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