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  • Writing as stretching a muscle, and other egregious metaphors

    Hello hello everyone. I had somewhat of an epiphany the other day about my own writing and wanted to share. If you read my post about spring, you probably remember me talking about how I had written a poem and was feeling generally positive about my personal writing even though I have been doing nothing…

  • Story acceptance!

    I feel like I can finally talk about this, because I have a date for when my fiction finally gets printed and I get to hold my own words in my own two hands.

  • Story of the Week #14 — “Elegy in Running Water” by Alex Friedman

    I have always loved Alex’s work. Right away when we began workshop together, when I was still a scared undergraduate in my head, I noticed that this guy wrote the kinds of stuff I like to read: the weird stuff, like watercolor dragons and alien flamingos. This guy has an imagination. His work stood out…

  • NEAT. Goes Dancing at the Cabaret

    Don’t forget that NEAT. is accepting submissions for Issue 8! Our theme this quarter is cabaret. I want fun, flirty, fast-paced. I think our diverse submission pool is going to give it to me. Ooooh I can’t wait to read these subs. View our submission guidelines. Read up on the previous issues to get a feel for what…

  • Writing, according to Tim O’Brien

    Today I came across this quote about writing and thought it appropriate for what we do and feel as writers every day.

  • Spring has come to Chicago!

    I walked outside my apartment this morning and was greeted with the glorious knowledge that spring has finally crawled out from under its blanket of snow. I love winter and snow and everything that comes with it, but I am so ready for it to be warm outside. Even now as I sit at my…

  • I Am an Adult Now, and Other Odd Things: Liz goes to work!

    Day One of my new job! I already love it. I have my own computer and desk and my coffee cup is sitting here nicely beside me as I type (lunch break!). I also got a neat water tumbler and have been diligently drinking water all day (excuse me while I go to the restroom real…

  • Great news from Chicago-land!

    Hello faithful readers and fellow writers! Today is a great day. I just got offered a job as a Content Writer at a marketing company in Chicago! Woo. Now I can do a thing for a living that I went to school for. This is an English major’s dream come true. I start on Monday!…

  • NEAT. Issue 7: Winter 2014 – 2015 . . . has arrived!

    Hey all! Go check out the new issue of NEAT. up on the website. It’s full of lovely, dirge-ful writing (that’s a word because I say so) and I’m so happy to have been a part in reading and selecting these.

  • Hello hello from the great white Midwest

    Concerned readers will be happy to know that I am finally back from my hiatus. I am writing to you from a whole new city: Chicago! A lot of packing, an ungodly amount of stress and adrenaline, and a cold-as-shit blizzard of a move-in day later, and I have officially been here for a month.…