Allison Renner

Picking winners for our #GIVEAWAY TONIGHT so you still have time to comment with your favorite (or most hated, why not!) required reading.

BONUS: If you win, I'll read the book/essay/poem you commented with. As someone who hated required reading... this raises the stakes.

YES can't wait for this one!

This was on my shortlist based on the song alone - had no clue what to write about, so I can't wait to read this essay!

Was hoping someone would pick this so I can call them out in mine!

"Desmond Child, who produced the album, got the idea for the title after hearing the Bush song "Glycerine". Child misheard the title as "Kiss the Rain". When he was told the correct title, he decided to use "Kiss the Rain"..."

A copy GREEN LIGHT: A GATSBY CYLE, sticker, postcard, and pages from Gatsby.

To enter: reply with your favorite assigned reading. Was it a novel, poem, essay?

Two winners will be randomly selected around July 30. One winner will get a prize package from me & one will get a prize package from @allisonwrites.bsky.social

cc: @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

Honestly best thing in my life right now and I'm not even embarrassed about that

I sent it to the email on your website - let me know if you get it and/or need any other scans of it!

Giveaway alert! 2 autographed copies of GREEN LIGHT + postcard, sticker, & a Gatsby page to create found poetry.

Reply with your favorite assigned reading. Multiple entries allowed on different platforms (FB, IG, Twitter, BlueSky).

Two winners will be randomly selected 7/30

I was NOT a Dawson's Creek watcher but saw that in my research and figured I'll need to find the episode/clip, just for my knowledge.

Also - thank you for sharing that! I've been asking people what they think/feel about my song and using responses to help shape my essay so this is helpful!

Loooooove the @marchxness.bsky.social community! Even when we end up duking it out in the bracket

I'll have access to a good scanner (aka not my shaky hands taking pics) tomorrow so I'll send it along after that!

Do you still play? I can scan it for you!

It was my number one so I'm thrilled to have it! Hope to do it justice, and can't wait to see what you pick if your name comes up 🤞

Pulling out my middle school diaries for this one

I can't WAIT. This song had a chokehold on me. I had the sheet music to play on my flute in middle school band - time to dust that off.

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😍 OBSESSED with this photo!!! @thesisterjanet.bsky.social

Janet Dale’s and Allison Renner’s Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle uncovers such familial cycles, the reality of a modern American Dream, and explores the collaborative process. This collaboration takes inspiration from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 American classic, The Great Gatsby, bringing forth big themes into modern culture in poetic and prosaic form. 

Interview out now about GREEN LIGHT pinehillsreview.com/2025/07/02/j...

cc: @allisonwrites.bsky.social @pinehillsreview.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

“The idea of an American Dream feels warped to me”: An Interview with Janet Dale and Allison Renner Jay Gatsby thinks he has achieved it all by reinventing himself and becoming rich, but he is lonely, still yearning for the past, and after he is murdered, no one wants to attend his funeral.

“The idea of an American Dream feels warped to me”: An Interview with Janet Dale and Allison Renner

Jay Gatsby thinks he has achieved it all by reinventing himself and becoming rich, but he is lonely, still yearning for the past, and after he is murdered, no one wants to attend his funeral.

I worried PJ was veering too much into grunge which is low hanging fruit for sadness. But Better Man is a heartbreaker.

Omg just got an amazing idea for an extracurricular to pitch if I'm not in the lottery

Tonic - If You Could Only See
Pearl Jam - Better Man
Jewel - Foolish Games
Ace of Base - Don't Turn Around
Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live
Billie Myers - Kiss the Rain
Everclear - Father of Mine
Paula Cole - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone
Hanson - I Will Come to You

Thanks for sharing!

If you missed my story at @paragraphplanet.bsky.social, you can now read it from the archives! Click my name and read "Last Time" paragraphplanet.com/authors_r_z....

“Last Time” by Allison Renner @AllisonWrites.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com

😡 I need to see anything they have. I'm not ready to be done with this.

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HOW IS THERE NOT A SECOND SEASON???? 😭 #ZWatch

No one has ever measured (not even poets) how much the heart can hold #ZWatch

Love the tow truck reveal! #ZWatch