The Compost Heap
Amanda RothA collection of inspiring scraps, mixed with fertile soil, and left to ferment. Sprinkle generously into your own creative endeavors.
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A thousand thank you’s to Patricia, Annie, and Katherine at West Trestle Review for not only publishing this poem, but also nominating it for a Best of the Net.
Today
avocados exist.
Bananas, rambutan, four kinds of
carrot...
Free-Range Amanda
Whenever I write without much editing or self-censorship, my dear friend Kate calls me Free-Range Amanda. Look, it fits. Wild, a little feral, living off the land. I like it. And tbh, that’s the version that’s writing this post today.
Tru...
Kitchen Notes for Oldest Daughters Who Were Never Taught to Cook
Thank you to the lovely folks at MAYDAY for giving this hermit crab essay such a lovely home.
Kitchen Notes for Oldest Daughters Who Were Never Taught to Cook
Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
▢ 1½ cups all-purpose flour
▢ ¼ cup unswe...
How to Cook a Wolf
2024 was the Year of Aiming High.
I had spent 2023 in a flurry, submitting poems and creative nonfiction to so many journals in an attempt to rack up 100 rejections. I lost steam (and poems to submit) after a while, but the act did exactl...
Welcome to The Compost Heap!
Welcome to The Compost Heap! I’m your garden tour guide, Amanda Roth, a writer, editor, amateur folklorist, and multimedia artist living near the Salish Sea.
First off, I have to confess something. I have resisted joining Substack for nea...
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Mother of dragons. Writer and editor. Folklorist. Making good trouble.
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