
On the wonder and craft of the writing life. With swear words.
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One of my students recently published this gut punch of a piece in Hippocampus, entitled The Return Pantry.
A publication is always something to celebrate, though I urge my students — and myself — to celebrate every time...
In this episode, Julia F. Green and Ralph Walker welcome novelist, professor, and 5am Writers Club stalwart Penny Zang for a heated discussion about Tobias Wolff’s rule-breaking short story, “Bullet in the Brain.”
Reading: Bullet in the Br...
It’s May, y’all, and I sure don’t know how that happened. The spring was blurry. For the first time in my life, I thought about drywall, baseboards, and shoe molding. I moved a lot of books and journals and did paperwork. For someone who sp...
In this episode, Julia and Ralph are joined by award-winning novelist and Army veteran Nancy Stroer to dissect a short story by Benjamin Inks in which Jack Fleming, a fictional character invented as a joke, becomes a larger than life hero w...
Y’all, it’s springtime! (Or summer, or winter, depending on the day of the week and your latitude). I’ve got updates coming soon on some of my creative and professional projects, but there’s plenty of enriching offerings out there I want yo...
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Julia F. Green is a creative writing instructor and coach in Carrboro, North Carolina.
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