Emily Rodgers is a Pittsburgh-based adjunct English professor at AI, Duquesne University, and the Community College of Allegheny County. Outside of her role as an instructor, Rodgers is a musician who is both singer and songwriter in Emily Rodgers Band. She has been praised by NPR All Songs Considered, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Burgh Sounds, Pittsburgh City-Paper, …
Writing daily is hard. Actually, it might be more accurate to say the prospect of writing daily can be daunting. Life tends to happen: college assignments pile up, work becomes a vacuum for all your remaining free time, friends struggle while watching you struggle, and if you have children, bless your little soul. Somehow, you’ve …
Life is full of rejection. Last one picked during recess? Rejected. Didn’t get into the college you wanted? Rejected. Turned down for a position you wanted because they “went with someone more qualified”? Rejected. Sooner or later, rejection feels less like a sharp word or a slamming door and more like a punch in the …
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We all know how hard it can be to get anyone, especially publishers, to simply look at our work. Thankfully, this has yet to deter us from trying. Here’s a list of five publishers currently open to submissions:
World-building, the process of creating a fictionally imaginative world, is essential to the stability of any novel. At first glance, world-building can appear to be a simple act of building a physical world,like creating worlds in Minecraft or painting an imaginary landscape. World- building is much more than mountains in the distance or the …
Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoir Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe — which won Stanford University’s 2016 Saroyan Prize for International Writing — as well as the memoirs The Bridge to Take When Things Gets Serious and Miss New York Has Everything. She is also the author of the poetry collection, …
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