Month: November 2013
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“The Dare” by Rachel Unkefer
I entered my first short story contest in 2009 on a dare—and won. Until then I never considered submitting a story for publication. I thought of myself as an unpublished novelist, not a writer of short stories. Since then, I’ve had four more stories and a poem published. But this is not a story about publishing.…
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An Interview with Sheryl Louise Rivett
So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art Sheryl Louise Rivett is the blog editor at So to Speak, a George Mason University literary journal. She is also a fiction candidate in the MFA program at Mason, where she is working with two members of the Mason Health Administration and Policy faculty…
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An Interview with Teresa Burns Murphy
Teresa Burns Murphy is a talented writer and (happily for me) a dear friend. Her debut YA novel, The Secret to Flying, published by TigerEye Publications in 2011, is told from the perspective of an adolescent girl named Donita Tosh and explores the intricacies of the mother-daughter bond. For Donita, growing up poor in a small Arkansas town…