Osiyo! Publishing news for me for 2020, as of now. Out January 1, 2020 is Mary and the Trail of Tears; A Cherokee Removal Survival Story from Capstone. You can pre-order here: Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story Additionally, I’m a contributor to an anthology titled You Too?, a nonfictionContinue reading “Publishing News”
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Submission Trackers
I try to reinvent as few wheels as possible. So, when I started to create a submission tracker this morning, because I can not remember what story I sent to a certain press in August, I hit the internet. I found this link that took me to the webpage of writer Matt Bell. He createdContinue reading “Submission Trackers”
What the World Needs Now is Eden Robinson
Recently, I listened to Eden Robinson’s Son of a Trickster, the first book in her Trickster Trilogy. It is wonderful and funny and dark and beautiful and interesting and moving. I have heard Eden Robinson read before. She is hilarious. We stood and line at lunch at IAIA and laughed, a lot. There are soContinue reading “What the World Needs Now is Eden Robinson”
Dr. Theo Van Alst Writes a Book
Dr. Theo Van Alst is cool and smart and ready to fight if he has to. I like this about him and his writing. Sacred Smokes is confidently unapologetic. It smokes in the apartment. It doesn’t do the dishes. Native Lakota kid Theo survives in Chicago and Chicago survives in Dr. Van Alst. Theo hasContinue reading “Dr. Theo Van Alst Writes a Book”
There There by Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange’s polyphonic novel ties together the lives of several urban Indians as they gravitate towards The Big Oakland Pow Wow. It is beautiful and heartbreaking and funny and true and sad. It comes out on June 5. You should preorder it from your favorite indie bookstore. Nevertheless, here’s that super convenient non-indie bookstore link.Continue reading “There There by Tommy Orange”
KWELI, The 3rd Annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference
In early April I attended Kweli’s 3rd Annual Children’s Literature Conference. KWELI is the creation of Laura Pegram. Laura has suffered as an artist in isolation. This experience led her to create KWELI-an online community for those writers of color working alone. http://www.kwelijournal.org/ Laura has also made it part of her work to create anContinue reading “KWELI, The 3rd Annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference”
Listening to Stories
I am a student in the Low Residency program at The Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. The Low Rez program is amazing. I have had several kind and amazing writing teachers. I’ll go more into that in a later post. My mentor this semester is Tommy Orange. His debut novel, There There,Continue reading “Listening to Stories”
Go do stuff
Sadly, a certain amount of benign neglect makes for an interesting life. Feel stupid having bought my family this book when l went to school and left them alone for 9 days in a cabin in the woods. You know. On a mountain. With no phone. No electric. It would have felt irresponsible to say,Continue reading “Go do stuff”
Writers Read
above/top: Cover of 4 Kids Walk into a Bank. Directly above: quote adapted from Scorsese’s Mean Streets, ” You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it in the home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.” 4 Kids Walk into a Bank was unputdownable.Continue reading “Writers Read”
Flashback to the Present
Native writers at Kweli’s Color of Children’s Literature Conference in April 2016 Front: L to R: Charlene Willing McManis (Grand Ronde); Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma); Marcie Rendon (White Earth (Anishinaabe) Nation) Back: L to R: Natalie Dana (Passamaquoddy); Laura Kaye Jagles (Tesuque Pueblo); Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation); Joseph Bruchac(Abenaki); and Kevin Maillard (Seminole) Two years ago, IContinue reading “Flashback to the Present”
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