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Bloom Creative Writing: We Are Not Having This Conversation, by Michael Horton
Fiction / Original Fiction / Uncategorized

Bloom Creative Writing: We Are Not Having This Conversation, by Michael Horton

Posted on March 28, 2023 by joeschuster3 • Leave a comment

“This morning on her way home from church (Val is the only one of us who goes), she stopped at the kids’ new house.” Continue reading →

Oldest Female Debut Novelist Tells All
Authors / Blooming in Time / Debut Authors / Uncategorized

Oldest Female Debut Novelist Tells All

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Alice Stephens • 2 Comments

I’d been warned by my editor. She told me that as an older author I might have trouble finding an agent. She knew a Canadian agent who prided himself on never taking on a debut novelist over the age of 45. Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Four Poems by Jack Stewart
Original Poetry / Poetry / Uncategorized

Bloom Creative Writing: Four Poems by Jack Stewart

Posted on January 31, 2023 by joeschuster3 • Leave a comment

We never get snow,
Even when winter is fully here,
Just a jacket of emptiness
Buttoned by nuthatches. Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Jack Powers
Original Poetry / Poetry / Uncategorized

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Jack Powers

Posted on October 25, 2022 by joeschuster3 • 3 Comments

“The Inuit do not have fifty words for snow, but the Greeks had eight words
for love” Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Carol Coven Grannick
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Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Carol Coven Grannick

Posted on July 26, 2022 by joeschuster3 • 2 Comments

They wouldn’t let me near you,
their ring around your bedside tight
hungry wolves on a dark navy night Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Fiction by Stuart Watson
Original Poetry / Poetry / Uncategorized

Bloom Creative Writing: Fiction by Stuart Watson

Posted on March 29, 2022 by mctking96 • Leave a comment

A few feet away, a first-gen Lincoln Town Car had taken up residence at the curb. It wore vanity Idaho plates celebrating someone named JELLI. Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Maud Kelly
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Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Maud Kelly

Posted on January 25, 2022 by joeschuster3 • 1 Comment

The baby holds her hands to her ears, and I worry she hears voices. Continue reading →

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