More brilliance from Rebecca Solnit, this time about the necessity of women's testimonial storytelling as a tool for breaking patriarchy. https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-let-this-flood-of-womens-stories-never-cease/ Originally published on LitHub.

Wild Womanista's weekly Writing Wisdom series features writing tips, publication and contest leads, fellowship and residency opportunities, author networking, and other authorial obsessions. Issue #11 is for people needing creative motivation to meet their authorial goals. Kate Colby offers intelligent insight on how to stay focused for writing success. https://wp.me/p4SsOO-omD Originally published online by A … Continue reading Writing Wisdom #11: Why Do You Write? →

July marked the first anniversary of prolific publication for me, with 10 different essays and poems printed in literary magazines and anthologies. While focused on getting my heartfelt words out into the world, I unwittingly produced a suite of essays around the intertwined themes of sexual violence and mental health. Here's an overview. The poem … Continue reading Sex and Insanity →

To the Ivy League Institution Selling Online Diversity Credentials: Let's establish clear boundaries. Please get your advertisements out of my feed. However, since you saw fit to clutter my life with your marketing campaign, I have a few things to say about it. For decades, people of color have been doing or attempting to do … Continue reading “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Diversity Certificates!” →

This may be a tough message for some of you to receive, but please read to the end. On behalf of too many folks in rage, tears, or paralyzed numbness, I am asking white women to reflect on how many frontline people of color you are actively supporting in our current and historical reality of … Continue reading To white sister-friends & with pure love to WOC in the trenches →

I'm not on social media much anymore because I'm too damn busy but it's time for an important public service announcement: If you are ignoring news about the latest child molestation, statutory rape and sexual harassment cases, if you are neglecting to reach out to known sexual trauma survivors (nearly all of whom are triggered … Continue reading Truth in Trauma →

Wild Womanista's weekly Writing Wisdom series features writing tips, publication and contest leads, fellowship and residency opportunities, author networking, and other authorial obsessions. For Issue #9, I am grateful to Rebecca Monterusso for this list of concrete craft strategies. https://wp.me/p57bCQ-69P Originally published on Story Grid.

Wild Womanista's weekly Writing Wisdom series features writing tips, publication and contest leads, fellowship and residency opportunities, author networking, and other authorial obsessions. Memorial Day passed and college students are on summer break, so it's time to discover new vacation reads and polish your prose until it shines in the sun. In Issue #8, Trish … Continue reading Writing Wisdom #8: ‘Writing Retreats and Activist Writers’ →

Wild Womanista's weekly Writing Wisdom series features writing tips, publication and contest leads, fellowship and residency opportunities, author networking, and other authorial obsessions. For Issue #7, let's offer thanks to Johanna Michelle Lim for this elegant meditation on the form, process and philosophy of the personal essay. https://wp.me/p5Dy7t-fT Originally published March 5, 2019 on Lim's … Continue reading Writing Wisdom #7: ‘The Essay as a Tightrope Between The Self and The World’ →