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IMG DESCR: Blue book cover for What We Didn’t Expect: Personal Stories About Premature Birth, with positive Kirkus Review
Cover design by Marina Drukman
What We Didn't Expect
(that’s a long list for 2020!)
But in terms of anthologies, What We Didn't Expect is out this month from Melville Books. (Just in time for Prematurity Awareness Month!) My contribution "Destination: Okay" takes place long after we left the NICU. Michael and Wagner's language delays changed the way I looked at my expectations for my children.
You can order your copy from a bookstore near you!
Nothing gets written in a vacuum. I have to credit my Hedgebrook peeps and the daily writing space we've carved out for ourselves for creating the fertile ground that helped these ideas take root. And editor Melody Schreiber asked all the right questions and left out all the wrong words.
IMG DESCR: One seven-year-old girl in baby mouse costume flanked by two four-year-old boys in angel costumes. They look adorable.
Photo courtesy of the author.
"The Wild Card I Didn't Count On"
I know we have our own roads but I still thought I could influence the outcome. This essay started out as a piece for Listen to Your Mother. The embellished version came out today on the website "Mothers Always Write."
"Sawed"
This piece is a little darker. It's a flash nonfiction essay written to a ten-minute prompt last January during an Amherst Writers & Artists workshop I gave at the Hivery. I probably wouldn't have submitted it at all if I wasn't gunning for 100 rejections in 2020. Well, lo, and behold, it got accepted by Burningword Literary Journal. (And yes, I'm still counting up the rejections, but I'm up to 103).