Elizabeth Burton

Finding Gratitude in the Query Trenches What Waiting Is Teaching Me about Being Present

Anybody else querying? My latest newsletter: Finding Gratitude in the Query Trenches. Sometimes the waiting teaches us more than the destination. I'm learning what mindful waiting actually means: and why my animals might be the best teachers I have: writingeverything.substack.com/p/finding-gr...

Hannah Pittard Was Right On Truth-Telling Across Genres

My latest newsletter, about fiction and memoir, and why writing memoir helped me with my novel: writingeverything.substack.com/p/hannah-pit...

What if success was on how well you sleep at night (insomniacs exempt from this one)?

White letters on a black background say, "Now what?"

My June newsletter, where I talk about finishing my novel, working with an editor, and starting the search for an agent, is here! Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQP1...

Standing up against proposed higher ed cuts - Community College Daily For the past few months, America’s most prestigious universities have been under attack by a president intent on chastening “woke elites” and flexing his political muscle to show that not even the wor...

This article explains very clearly why cuts to the Pell Grant program will only hurt our poorest and often, most hardworking, students: www.ccdaily.com/2025/05/stan...

Here's my latest newsletter, about my "origin story" as a writer. What's your origin story?

Link: writingeverything.substack.com/p/plastic-ho...

I understand that. I have two that I keep at home, but I don't run a whole animal rescue on the side! 🙂

Image of a skinny horse with ears pricked toward the camera.

I'd be honored if you'd check out my latest newsletter: "What I Learned from an Abused Horse: And What Vision Boards Have to Do with Hope"
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Oh my goodness, she is! Do you ride, Shaindel, or just admire from afar?

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

I love you!

THE KENDRICK SUPER BOWL CURRICULUM!! 🔥

by Linda J.M. Holloway, Ed.D., NCC & April T. Berry, Ph.D.

Legit great stuff here, teachers / professors:

Revising Those Poetry Drafts From Start to Finish

I'd be honored if you would check out my latest newsletter on revising individual poems: writingeverything.substack.com/p/revising-t...

I had a pretty well-known publisher turn down a manuscript of mine because they said I should market it as a memoir. It was all fiction but I had an “I” narrator. It was a smh moment.

Thanks, Split Lip family!

Waffle with butter and syrup on a green plate with a fork and knife and a butter plate overtop of a red and white dish towel

Contributor ‪@eburtonwrites.bsky.social‬ has new flash fiction in South Florida Poetry Journal! It's a flash with a haiku inside! Read "To the Woman Talking to Her Therapist on Speaker at Waffle House" here: https://buff.ly/49bloKJ

When Okay Is Good Enough: Why You Need to Write Badly

Here's my newest newsletter, where I talk about why we need to write a great deal badly in order to write a few things well: writingeverything.substack.com/p/when-okay-...

I'm here! Happy to see you!

Thank you so much for reading and sharing!

My latest flash fiction piece, "To the Woman Talking to Her Therapist on Speaker at Waffle House," is up at South Florida Poetry Journal. It includes alternate timelines, imagined conversations, and even an embedded haiku! Link: www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-35-nov...

A photo of a Przewalski horse by Claudia Feh

My fiction chapbook is ready for preorder at Appalachia Book Company! Set in western China, it features flashbacks to Eastern Kentucky and is about love lost, resilience, and the healing power of horses. Link: www.appalachiabook.co/store/p/of-l...

To be fair, I’m not sure about all those things at this point and I’m the teacher.

Water by Elizabeth Burton

See my latest piece, a micro memoir, up at Good River Review: goodriverreview.com/post/elizabeth-burton

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Ever feel like your creativity well has run dry? In my latest newsletter, we dive into:

Why dry spells are normal (even Maya Angelou had them!)
How switching genres can reignite your spark
10 unique prompts to kickstart your writing

#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritersBlock #WritingTips

Thanks, friend!

Writing Everything | Elizabeth Burton | Substack As a writer who enjoys writing and publishing in multiple genres, this newsletter covers every aspect of the writing life, from switching gears from poetry to fiction to burnout and rejections. Join ...

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My husband bought me an early birthday present: a one of a kind necklace of sodalite and copper. I love it!

I have a new flash memoir up at Bending Genres today. Thanks so much to the editors and to @avitusbcarle.bsky.social for helpful edits! Here's the link: bendinggenres.com/dark-but-nev...

Out at JMWW today, my flash cnf, "The Mortality of Giants." Thanks to @avitusbcarle.bsky.social for her excellent editing help! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/c...