As you've no doubt surmised by this point, we're doing a bit of a theme thing here during the month of November. This time around, w...

I have lived in two states in the U.S. soon to be three. I grew up in Montana but moved to California just before starting 7th grade. Needle...

I am a transplant from Los Angeles to Atlanta. I will admit that my heart will always be in L.A., though I've lived in Atlanta for...

I live in Baltimore. I know what you’re thinking…The Wire, The Riots, burnt out buildings, murder capital. I’m in the county, not the city,...

  by Velda Brotherton   One of the worst things editors or critique groups can do is change a writer’s voice. So how do we recogni...

Almost six years ago, I heard those words we who write yearn to hear; a publisher said yes. The next step, I assumed, would be to lean bac...

Marlon James The Caribbean is my birthplace and my current home, so it's with more than a soupçon of pride that I read the news last...