Quote for May 8, 2015

    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

-- Stephen King

Counting the days. . .

headed to Vermont for the residency the beginning of June.

I'm really really really going to try to finish up those 65ish stories I've been lugging through the years, including four which would complete a linked short story collection.  Wouldn't that be something?

An acceptance and a publication here, here, and here

I have a work upcoming in Change Seven Magazine.

My tiny work "Longing" just came out in  Thrice Fiction

and "Watson's Girl" in Miracle Monocle

and a photograph "wind warriors" is in Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal

Creative Quote

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” — Mary Lou Cook

Take 2

I was unable to go to the Vermont Studio Center years back when they gave me a residency.  Life, including a broken wrist.  They held a space for me as long as they could, too.

Well, second chances and all that.

I have been awarded a fellowship that pays for everything and includes a $2000 stipend.  SO EXCITED.

"The Voices Rising Fellowship is awarded to an African American woman fiction writer in honor of women writers of color such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neale Hurston."

Humbled as well.

Yay me!

  "The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written."

 -Joyce Carol Oates

Short new work up at The Casserole.
http://thecasserole.ca/gwendolyn-mintz/

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The deadline's Wednesday and yes, that's short notice but you gotta have a finished book so that's okay.