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Weekly Writing Prompt
Today we kick off something new here on The Writer’s Life. Each week we will post a new writing prompt for your viewing and writing pleasure. So flex those creative muscles, get writing, and don’t forget to post your finished work in the comments section (optional).
Does Your Mama Know? : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories
Review by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin 2nd Edition edited by Lisa C. Moore RedBone Press, 2009 The True Self Discovered and The World Confronted In 1996 Lisa C. Moore, the founder of Red Bone Press, published a collection of stories called Does Your Mama Know? : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories. The stories [...]
Breaking Out of Bedlam by Leslie Larson
Crown/Shaye Areheart Books, 2010 Review by Hannah Eason Cora Sledge, the more-than-unlikely heroine of Leslie Larson’s Breaking Out of Bedlam, is overweight, decommissioned by a wide variety of pills she really shouldn’t have in the first place, and disoriented. This is the condition her grown children discover her in right before deciding to move her [...]
Connie May Fowler Confidential: Secrets, Storytelling, and the Oil Disaster
by Shana Thornton Connie May Fowler understands the impact of secrets, both private and political. In her novels and memoirs, she acutely communicates the interconnectivity of life, including her own. Fowler is a Southern author and she utilizes that culture and landscape in her novels. Her characters reflect the diversity of the South, while also [...]
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