This year, Longridge Review debuts the Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Leading up to our first prize, each team member is exploring one published LR essay that stuck. Mine is "On the Wonder of the World" by David McVey. You can read my thoughts here. Previous posts: Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher on "The Snake"…
My essay "If You Find a Mouse on a Glue Trap" (Brevity, September 2018) will be reprinted in Pushcart's annual anthology. When the email from Dinty W. Moore arrived yesterday, I read it more than a few times. More than a dozen, I think. It took that many readings to decode: "Your piece has been…
My whole career, twenty years now, has been in education. My love for and passion about writing—about all good writing and helping people figure out how to do it, no matter their purpose—partly overlaps with education and partly stands on its own. As a teacher, writer, shop daughter, and now a parent, I believe in…
I began writing seriously in 2006, during my first of two grad school programs. I was sure that I wanted writing to be part of my life, but I was unsure that I wanted writing to be the central focus of my life. I entered grad school with an urge to learn about everything and…
My mother loved fabric. Her basement held hundreds of bolts up to fifty yards each, which means she could have unfurled a textile train over fifteen miles long. Fabric sat in tall stacks on her sturdy sewing-room workbench. The bottom bolts were flush with the bench’s front, but the stacks gradually leaned back as they…
