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Tag Archives: Jennifer De Leon
Roundup: Literary Mothers
In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines and websites, centered on a certain theme to help … Continue reading
Posted in Roundups
Tagged Aimee Nezhukumatathil, albert cohen, Jennifer De Leon, sarah banse
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Patience and Courage: Finding the Balance between Teaching and Writing
I can count the days: seventy-seven. This is a very long time to go without writing a single sentence that has nothing to do with confirming a meeting over email, reminding my husband via text message to add chocolate-covered pretzels … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged Askold Melnyczuk, Beckett, Drown, Jennifer De Leon, Joyce, Junot Diaz, teaching, Writing time
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Myths About Lit Mags — With Becky Tuch, Founding Editor of The Review Review
This week, I asked Becky Tuch to respond to some common misconceptions about literary magazines. Here are her responses. 1. No one reads them. Literary magazines may not have a mainstream audience. But they do have a very specific and … Continue reading
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Tagged AWP, Duotrope, Jennifer De Leon, literary magazines, The Review Review
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Telling the Fairytale: Explaining Hedgebrook to My Four-Year-Old Nephew
Growing up, I never knew it was possible to be a writer. No one in my family ever talked about reading books, never mind writing them. It wasn’t until September of my senior year in high school that I discovered … Continue reading
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Tagged Hedgebrook, Jennifer De Leon, Virgina Woolf, writing residencies, young writers
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Bridging the Generation Gap: Grub Street Teens Visit Ploughshares
This past summer, during Grub Street’s Young Adult Writers Teen Fellowship (http://www.grubstreet.org/index.php?id=22), one of my students wrote a ghazal that left me speechless with awe and envy. She is fifteen. Most days during the three-week program, she wore flannel shirts, … Continue reading
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Tagged Grub Street, Jennifer De Leon, literacy, students, teen writers, teens, YAWP, young adult
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How Much of Your Salary Would You Spend on a Book?
Last year my husband, Adam Stumacher, and I moved to Guatemala so we could work on our novels. That was the plan. Our first week there, he worked diligently, often using Freedom on his computer so he could stay focused … Continue reading
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Tagged Guatemala, guest blog, Jennifer De Leon, literacy, reading, salary
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The Borderlands of Language: Using Italics for “Foreign” Words (Part I)
Junot Díaz once told me that he writes for his six best friends and the rest of the world. This was a few summers ago in a VONA fiction workshop in San Francisco. We had been discussing the meaty issue … Continue reading
Bridging the Divide: Why I Brought My Mom to Bread Loaf
I didn’t grow up in what I would call a literary family. We delivered newspapers; we didn’t read them. We told stories constantly, but we never wrote them down. My mom is a housekeeper. All her life she has never … Continue reading
