This essay, “Loon Boy,” won terrain.org’s nature-writing essay contest recently. My friend Simmons Buntin, the founder …
Do You Have a Secret (or Not So Secret) Desire to Write?
I am teaching a Level 1 class in creative nonfiction and memoir starting in April. If you have a story or book that is burning …
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A Poem Written at Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference
When I was teaching last summer at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference in Vermont, I got to tour the Robert Frost cabin and also walk …
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Is the Substack Model Sustainable?
I had been questioning books and the written word 1) as book sales decreased, 2) as newspapers folded, 3) as universities turned …