Writing Roots
Melissa Scholes YoungThis is Writing Roots, a newsletter about the seeds, soil, sunshine, and harvest of hard truths.
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Flood Stage
When the Mississippi River reached an historic 500-year crest in the summer of 1993, my boyfriend taught me to dig a ditch with his daddy’s backhoe. I was seventeen years old. Our town’s flood stage was sixteen feet. A flood stage is a wate...
You Don't Own Me
Every morning when Dad left for work, his truck stirred up a cloud of dust on our dirt road in rural Missouri. It was a kind of magic to watch him disappear into a plume of earth. Mom and I would watch at the window and wave. Then she’d gra...
Your Class is Showing
At a reading for my first novel, a reader waited patiently at the microphone and asked, “Why would someone like you write about people like this?”
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This is Writing Roots, a newsletter about the seeds, soil, sunshine, and harvest of hard truths.
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Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood. Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is an associate professor in Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. She tweets @mscholesyoung.
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