Another Loose Sally

The February installment for our “Voices from Hunger Mountain” series comes from one of our readers for fiction submissions. In my fiction I have manifested myself as characters in the form of a teenager talking to trees, a loner who finds solace eating alone in restaurants waiting for nonexistent women, and even the occasional closet [...]

I have been obsessed with two things these last two weeks. One is writing-related, the other not. Because I have been watching my deadline for a blog essay loom ever closer, I have been telling myself there is a link between them, that I keep thinking about both because Writer Me is trying to make [...]

Three years ago, in her faculty speech for the Stonecoast MFA graduation, Suzanne Strempek-Shea handed the new graduates small white stickers with “I am a WRITER” in bold Times New Roman letters. She encouraged them to remember that they were writers first and foremost. “Nurture and feed the writer within,” she said. I tracked down [...]

Since we took a break in December from Another Loose Sally posts and most other related Hunger Mountain updates, I used that time to draft my monthly posts through March, polish up a new story, and re-organize my writing space. You probably thought you were reading the wrong post there for a second, didn’t you? [...]

The January installment for our “Voices from Hunger Mountain” series comes from our Editor. I love my job. Most people I know can’t say this and really mean it. So I feel very lucky. I love my office, for one thing. It’s in College Hall, the stately old Vermont College of Fine Arts building, which [...]

This marks my first blog post I hope will inspire action. To that end I won’t waste any time telling you what I want you to do: Research and apply for fellowships and grants. Some of my colleagues here at Hunger Mountain have been asking me about the fellowship I won this fall. You should write [...]

Another Loose Sally’s “best of the web.” * So you write and write and write, and maybe you end up with a book. Then what? Check out this Life Cycle of the Book, which follows a project through 11 stages from writing to publicity. * Want to write memoir? “Don’t do it!” says Bill Roorbach [...]