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As I chatted with artist Penny Lanese and writer Malinda Grace, I was reminded of the importance a safe environment and supportive friends have in making a “first time” a positive experience. They shared with me what showing artwork, work-shopping poetry, and having your writing published in a student chapbook for the first time felt [...]

I wrote this for a creative nonfiction writing class and it hasn’t been workshopped, but I think it’s appropriate to publish it now on a “making of” blog. And it describes what I’m trying to do in this space. My damn back is aching in this crouched position. I’ve set up my blog and entered [...]