Today, I’m excited to share that I have two poems published at Heron Tree. They are found-poetry nonets. Here’s the link https://herontree.com/berg4-5/ . They’re short and include a quick paragraph about my process. For today’s MTB prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, Laura challenges us to write an Octameter – designed by Shelley A. Cephas inContinue reading “Nonets and Octameter”
Category Archives: Publishing
Taking Risks
Exciting News! The Spring 2024 Vol. 26 Edition 2 of Stirring is now available, and I’m one of two featured artists. The online magazine includes two of my black and white photographs from my Murmurations series. Please check it out, and let me know what you think. Back to the Mirrorworld This morning I reconfiguredContinue reading “Taking Risks”
Calm in Agitation and Agitation in Calm
Heron Tree published my poem “Repent” as part of a series of poems created from materials published before 1927. Their call for submissions inspired me to explore a book of fairy tales I’ve had for a long time that was published in 1907. I talked about it in my post A Fun Found Poetry ProjectContinue reading “Calm in Agitation and Agitation in Calm”
NaPoWriMo 2020 Poetry Anthology Comes Out Tomorrow (and I’m in it)
I’m happy to announce my poem, “A Review of Wonderment,” is included in an anthology! The Auroras & Blossoms NaPoWriMo Anthology: 2020 Edition will be released as an e-book tomorrow (June 23). It includes poems written during National Poetry Writing Month (April) from 38 poets with a focus on positivity and inspiration. Give yourself, orContinue reading “NaPoWriMo 2020 Poetry Anthology Comes Out Tomorrow (and I’m in it)”
#Poetry out in the world
Today’s the day! Two of my poems have escaped Experience Writing and are out exploring the world. I hope you will pick up a copy of Washington’s Best Emerging Poets 2019 and read all the great poetry by Washington State poets. It will also make a great gift for the lovers of words in yourContinue reading “#Poetry out in the world”
The Planner Experiment: First Week of June
Looking for some fun summer reading? I hope you’ll check out this new anthology of twelve fresh, fantasy stories from Pacific Northwest authors, including me! The Planner Experiment Quick recap: I started the Planner Experiment at the beginning of the year with the intention to find homes for all my stories by learning more aboutContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: First Week of June”
Exciting News!! Deadly Again This Summer is out today!
Deadly Again This Summer is a story I wrote as an exploration of why young, athletic people drown in the lake each summer. It is a modern-day fairy tale in that it’s a cautionary tale of magical realism. This story is very close to my heart and I’m so excited that Z Publishing chose it forContinue reading “Exciting News!! Deadly Again This Summer is out today!”
The Planner Experiment: May Week 2
My new focus on contests brought me to something fun. Literary Taxidermy is having a contest in which participants write a story that starts and ends with lines from a selected work. This year’s selection is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The idea of the contest is to start with the first line of Mr.Continue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week 2”
The Planner Experiment: The last days of April
Here we are at the final days of April. Since the month ends on a Tuesday, I went ahead and added the last couple days. For these pages, I decided to take a look at Submittable and look at journals with deadlines at the end of April and beginning of May that do not chargeContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: The last days of April”
The Planner Pages: Changing course
The Experiment This month is flying by and I have very few submissions to show for it. My main issue is trying to read enough of each journal to get a feel for it and then when I’ve spent so much time reading the journal, I decide I don’t have a story that fits. I’veContinue reading “The Planner Pages: Changing course”
Experience Writing 