I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Tampa in March, where students and professor of creative writing gather for a weekend. I had

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I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Tampa in March, where students and professor of creative writing gather for a weekend. I had
My mother Romilia had a husband before she met my father. She was fifteen, he was twenty-even. They say that another woman was after him
It’s been fun to post my mother’s memoir here on The Writing Bull. And it’s just as fun, and even more meaningful, to listen to
I forgot to mention, the 1967 Mustang plays a big role in this novel. It’s practically another character. It’s the summer of 1978, a few
In this part of the novel, you get a real taste of what some of us call “internalized racism.” This is when a non-white person
Tony and his Salvadoran-Appalachian family attend his uncle Jack’s funeral, where the mourners aren’t mourning–either the men are running in just to make sure he’s