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McKenzie Lynn Tozan
"Creative minds are rarely tidy." – John William Gardner

Category: Achievements

Achievements, Blog, Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews

My Review of Angela Voras-Hills’ LOUDER BIRDS is Now Live at Green Mountains Review!

Happy News! I’m pleased to announce my poetry review of Angela Voras-Hills’ LOUDER BIRDS from Pleiades Press, 2020, is now live at Green Mountains Review!

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Achievements, Blog, Entertainment, Friday Round-Up, Trends

It’s the “Almost Halloween” Friday Round-Up!

TGIF, friends! I hope you had a wonderful week! This week, I had the pleasure of writing in entertainment and reflecting on my poetry, in addition to my usual trending pieces. Enjoy!

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Achievements, Blog, Friday Round-Up, Trends

Birthday Weekend Round-Up!

Happy Friday, friends! Here are TWO weeks’ worth of content; I hope you enjoy these! In the meantime, tell me about your favorite things this fall, and how you’re preparing for NaNoWriMo!

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Achievements, Blog, Friday Round-Up, Uncategorized

A Birthday Saddle & A Friday Round-Up!

TGIF, friends! This week was my daughter’s fifth birthday, and I also did a little writing! I hope your week was wonderful!

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Achievements, Blog, Friday Round-Up

A Very Long Week, Poetry Games, & A Friday Night Round-Up!

Happy Friday, friends! Here’s a little about my week, a Poetry Game challenge, and a round-up of my publications from the week! Enjoy!

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Achievements, Blog, Entertainment, Food - Family - Fitness, Friday Round-Up, Literary Scene, Trends

“The Hunt for Red [Starbucks]” & A Friday Round-Up

Join me in my search of all things Halloween and Pennywise at Starbucks! Plus, here’s my weekly round-up of publications ICYMI and would like to get caught up!

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Achievements, Blog, Literary Scene

Celebrate with Me! I’m a Poetry Reader for Muzzle Magazine!

Celebrate with me! I’m one of the new Poetry Readers for Muzzle Magazine!

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Achievements, Blog, My Poems

“Exit Strategies” featured in great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology!

I’m pleased to share my poem, “Exit Strategies,” was featured in this year’s anthology from great weather for MEDIA!

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Achievements, Blog, My Poems

“Daughter Wild” featured in Young Ravens Literary Review!

Hi all! I’m pleased to share my poem, “Daughter Wild,” was featured in Issue 10 of Young Ravens Literary Review!

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Achievements, Blog

My Poem, “Bad Omens,” Was a Winner in the Vocal Poets’ 2019 Contest!

My poem, “Bad Omens,” was one of four winners of Vocal Poets’ 2019 Poetry-in-Motion Poetry Contest! Read on for the winners and a very cool visual representation of my poem!

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Achievements, Blog, Literary Scene, Reviews & Interviews

Yours Truly is Going To Be a Judge!

A fun announcement for today, friends! I’ll be one of three of 2019’s INSPY Speculative Fiction judges!

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Don’t Forget! My March / Premiere Newsletter Launches April 1st!

Hi friends! Happy Friday Night! Just a reminder—My free, monthly newsletter is launching on Monday, April 1! (No Joke!) Sign up now, so you don’t miss out!

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Every year in September or early October, I feel t Every year in September or early October, I feel the same call: to go back and reread Annie Dillard's THE WRITING LIFE. (I read this book for the first time in my sophomore year of HIGH SCHOOL to give you an idea of how far back this tradition goes.) But it's become an integral part of my fall, almost like a welcoming home, and most certainly a readying for the winter that I'm never really ready for. 
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Reading late tonight, including this incredible po Reading late tonight, including this incredible poem by Cameron Awkward-Rich. Enjoy.
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Good morning, friends! To start my day off on the Good morning, friends! To start my day off on the right foot, I'm having coffee and breakfast with my kiddos, and I wanted to share one of my latest successes: my first article with the Digital Nomad Writing Club.
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I am nowhere near 40, but I love articles that work as a bookend for a decade: what you should read to wrap up a decade, what you should read as you're preparing for the next one, etc.
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I also think there are some high quality titles here! What would you include on a list for someone turning 40? 
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LINK in the comments! Thank you for reading! 
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Hi friends! I haven't posted (again) in a while, t Hi friends! I haven't posted (again) in a while, thanks mostly to the times we're in... But I at least am here with fun news! 
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I've been working on and off on the first novel in my GIRL TO MOON series, and I've also been writing a series of short stories that I plan to publish as a collection early in the new year. 
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I'm planning to release one of these, "The Duplex," in anticipation of the full collection AND the new year, which follows a mother's grieving of her late husband and her child who has gone missing. But after a series of psychological turns and chilling bumps in the night, she begins to wonder if her child is really missing, and if there was really anyone to grieve at all...
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We all may miss trick-or-treating this year (I know I will), but this story is going to be available to read by the light of your creepy Black Flame Candle on Halloween night, with a few days and "ch-ch-ch-ch" and "ah-ah-ah-ah"s to spare. 🖤🎃📚
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More details coming spooky-soon...
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It's finally here! My review of Angela Voras-Hills It's finally here! My review of Angela Voras-Hills' LOUDER BIRDS from Pleiades Press is live at Green Mountains Review. 

If you enjoy stellar, subtle poetry with lyrical and imagistic turns, the dangerous and the creepy, taking chances and the beautiful---then I can't recommend this one highly enough. It's a beautifully-wrought, difficult, and highly memorable collection. It's still on my mind almost daily. 

The LINK to my review is in the first comment! Thank you, GMR, for having me; I can't wait to read more for you soon. 
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