Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real Substack
Sheila Bender Writing It Real, Morgan: Four Dogs and a Baby, Marlene Samuels, Michelle Kehoe, Sue Pace, Beckie A. Miller, Barbara SimmonsI established Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real Substack as a community resource to facilitate those who write from personal experience in poetry, memoir, fiction, and nonfiction; join me for instructional articles on writing craft and the writing life.
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The Wind and the Couch
Sue Pace, Author Photo
THE WIND
I look out my bedroom window and see that my neighbor’s fruit forest was obeying the wind. Usually, only the treetops dance, but today the branches are bowing and bending due to something larger than a simp...
Writing It Real Newsletter
I wanted to share resources for the week and some class information. I am on the road again, so this newsletter is brief.
Prompt(s) and Response, my online summer three-session writing workshop for Il Chiostro.
Brenda Miller, who I will b...
Loving the Miracle of Existence While Thinking about Loss
Author photo of Barbara Simmons
These are lines from John Kenney’s recent novel, I See You’ve Called in Dead, that have stayed with me and arose when I sat down to collect my thoughts about what has been one of the greatest losses of my l...
May 8 Weekly Writing It Real Newsletter
La Boca, Buenos Aires, “ Mouth of the River”
Hi Writers,
I’ve posted the first essay in our new series of subscriber writings on loss; it is an essay by Beckie A. Miller entitled “Rosebud in the Snow.” After the loss of those we love, we...
A Rosebud in the Snow
Beckie A. Miller, Author Photo
My mom died at the young age of fifty-six. In truth, however, spiritually, she died many years before. On January 25, 1996, her body finally joined her. Mom guided me at the most pivotal and momentous time in...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Founder of WritingItReal.com, poet, essayist, memoirist and writing instruction author, I facilitate others writing from personal experience with articles and writing to help them grow rather than tear their writing apart via traditional critiquing.
Morgan's the author of the memoir, Emptying the Nest: Getting Better at Goodbyes. She teaches at Emerson College and virtually, and the managing editor of the bucket. She has a husband, two daughters, one son-in-law, one grandbaby, and three dogs.
Marlene is a research sociologist & author. She earned her PhD from University of Chicago. Her memoir, short stories & essays have been published widely in print, online & in anthologies. Visit: marlenesamuels.com
Michelle Kehoe is an emerging writer living in Southern California. She is interested in creative nonfiction and memoir stories written in small, bite-sized tales.
Over the years, I have had over 250 poems, poetry and personal essays published in a variety of journals. I often say, "writing is the most selfish thing I do".
Beckie began her writing career after the trauma of losing her son, Brian. She has numerous short stories, poetry, and essays published. Besides writing, she loves bowling, gardening, nature, and solar lights.
poet, lyrical essayist, always observing the world through an artist's pen
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