At a recent meeting today with Misty Sanico and Richard Melendez, the topic of personal journeys came up. But not just the inner journeys we navigate, but also the questions of identity, community, and place that we articulate into our prose and/or poetry. All genres reflect the individual, regardless of the disclaimers we attach to…

I’ve been thinking a lot about process lately, one, because I am working on novel revisions, and two, because as a composition teacher process is a habit I teach students is significant because of its impact on the depth of their discussion, and on the organization and effectiveness of their arguments. But as a creative…

Following the recent and unfortunate news that the Honolulu Weekly would be shutting its doors, I was tempted to write a post on the [local] book industry, something I’ve been mulling over since maybe two years ago when readers and writers found empty square-footage where their Borders used to be. I intentionally use the pronoun…

In her essay on creative writing pedagogy, ‘WRIT101: Ethics of Representation for Creative Writers’, Shady Cosgrove, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Wollongong, ponders the question: “…should creative writers be expected to study the ethical implications of their craft?” (Cosgrove 134). She argues that creative writers, specifically fiction writers, have often “escaped” scrutiny…