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Rockvale Writers’ Colony!

9 February 20239 February 2023 joannemerriam

I was accepted last month for a week-long residency at the Rockvale Writers’ Colony, and am halfway through my week here now. It’s the first

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Writing

“Writing a novel offers an extended experience of not getting to the point.”

13 January 202313 January 2023 joannemerriam

I’ve been spending the week getting up at 5 am and, because my brain is wrecked by my day job this week for anything creative,

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Writing

End of year writerly assessment

26 December 202226 December 2022 joannemerriam

For most of the past decade, I haven’t written much, between running Upper Rubber Boot (which I put on hiatus in 2020 for that reason)

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Fiction Yeah

rilly rilly busy you guys

6 March 201824 December 2022 joannemerriam

I’m hard at work on a Kickstarter slated for April for the next two volumes of the Women Up To No Good Series, and on

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Awards Fiction Photos & Video

Snow day

20 January 201624 December 2022 joannemerriam

It’s a snow day, Tennessee-style (which means we’ll get maybe two cm of snow, but tons of ice which we don’t have the infrastructure to

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Writing

Two new anthologies

22 May 2015 joannemerriam

I edited and co-edited, respectively, two new anthologies that came out in March from my press, Upper Rubber Boot Books: How to Live on Other

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Photos & Video Poetry Writing

How to Live on Other Planets and other news

29 October 201322 May 2015 joannemerriam

Since my last update, the whirlwind has continued: I got to spend an amazing eight days in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, two of them with

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Hiking Poetry

Cummins Falls State Park, Jackson County, TN

25 August 201324 December 2022 joannemerriam

Three of my poems, and some supplemental stuff, appeared at Poem of the Week this week! I love waterfalls – I’ve been spending a lot

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Events

“I can feel the movement from Theiclydes to Virgil like some guys feel the trading of a player from the Red Sox to the Yankees.”

4 May 201322 May 2015 joannemerriam

I went to the third of this semester’s poetry Saturday University at Vanderbilt on March 23rd, where Garrett Hongo read and answered questions about poetry.

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Poetry Yeah

“The words go just so far, then you come to meet them.”

19 March 201322 May 2015 joannemerriam

On Saturday, March 16, 2013, I went to the Saturday University poetry session by Stephen Dobyns at Vanderbilt University. Below are my notes from the

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