Shabana Kayum

Writing Spark Wednesday: Tell-Tale Ways into My Gothic Heart

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Creative Writing Prompt

Remember, storytelling is not just about the tale you tell but also how you tell it.

What are some of your favorite stories/novels with a first-person peripheral narrator?

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I'm surprised the language isn't "mother lynx mysteriously dies during dog operation."

Criticism here on the use of passive language and the pervasiveness of media bias. Not on dogs. Don't come for me.

Listen, there are numerous ingredients in American foods and beauty products that are banned in Europe, but that American media and corporations and government will declare is still safe all because of the all mighty dollar. This is just the latest example.

When it comes to genre, do you color within the lines?

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Reclaiming Wild Places and Outside Spaces: Q&A with Roohi Choudhry “If we met, the only language we might exchange belongs to our colonizers.” – Roohi Choudhry, Outside Women When Hajra is drawn to an image of a laughing Sita, a woman who lived a hundred years bef…

Recently, I spoke to Roohi Choudhry about her amazing debut novel, OUTSIDE WOMEN.

Our discussion was a journey itself, crossing oceans to distant shores, as she shared the inspirations and experiences that helped shape the novel.

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Join us on Zoom May 15, 2025, at 5:30 pm Pacific time for the launch of THE BOAT NOT TAKEN by Joanna Choi Kalbus. Ask a question in the audience Q&A for the chance to win a copy of this moving debut memoir. 3 participants will be chosen. buff.ly/amHvvsl

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Your lettuce looks nefarious. Or there's a little Groot hiding in it.

The pen is mightier
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Writing Prompt: Write a piece of flash #fiction inspired by the following haiku.

Thank you, Anu, for sharing your journey and your wonderful stories with us! ❤️

#WritingPrompt: Write a terrible sentence.

Weaving a Life Around the White Space: Q&A with Sharon White In Minato Sketches, Sharon White’s immersive narrative explores loss, renewal, and the Japanese landscape through the musings of art history professor Gigi, a stroke survivor looking to feel like h…

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with author Sharon White about her debut novel, Minato Sketches, out now from Minerva Rising Press.

Check out the interview on Bloom-site.com.
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Cons: not as well written or as meaty as either of the other two; & similar to the other two, people of color don't exist or don't matter

Pros: it's a consequential piece, influencing Trotsky's socialist ideals and later Orwell, who wrote about the corruption of Trotsky's ideology in Animal Farm.

Readership of Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale have increased in recent years - for some reason.

Can I recommend today - again, for some reason - Jack London's The Iron Heel from 1907? #Booksky

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