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Need Inspiration for the New Year? Here’s My Reading List for 2023.

by McKenzie | Jan 4, 2023 | Blog, Literary Scene, Reading

I always enjoy the new year: the excitement, the hope, and of course, the resolutions. In the last few years, it’s become especially important to me to plan my year well and to create goals for myself that would serve me in becoming the writer, freelancer, and...

New Poem “In Nature” & The Prompt Behind It

by McKenzie | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips), My Poems, My Writing Challenges

IN NATURE My daughter calls the outdoors home & needs no reason to enter. Her skin, the brush. Her voice & birdsong. Her running speed & the air through the field. They are the same. Sometimes, she blends in so well, I cannot see her. The brownest strands...

“A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming” & The Prompt Behind It

by McKenzie | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips), My Poems, My Writing Challenges

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”—Hamlet A SLEEPING OCTOPUS CHANGES COLOR WHILE DREAMING I can see it up there, high in the corner like a spider hosting its web....

The horses…

by McKenzie | May 2, 2012 | Blog, My Writing Challenges

Recent Posts

  • New (Dinosaur) Poem: Parking Lot
  • OMG, Lit Shark is LIVE (and Ready to Sink Its Teeth into Some Submissions!)
  • Need Inspiration for the New Year? Here’s My Reading List for 2023.
  • Becoming Her 2023
  • Happy New Year! Here’s What to Expect in 2023.

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