This month has been especially busy for me. I worked on four short stories, averaging one per week. I’ve never written four short stories in a month before, and the output has been tremendous. Of these, one is a novelette, weighing in at about 12,000 words. I’ve also set my sights on writing a taleContinue reading “Short Story September”
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Hunting for Words (or How to Feel Relevant Again)
I chase the words outside, hunting them down one by one, following their tracks through deep snow. They twist and turn and laugh at my feeble attempts to capture them. Some escape into the woods, while others succumb to my net. I trap them and nail them to the page. They scream and curse me,Continue reading “Hunting for Words (or How to Feel Relevant Again)”
Fellowship in Prose
I announced this news in February on my socials, but I was awared a 2024 Fellowship in Prose from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. I applied once before a few years ago and received a rejection. When the application process came around again last year, I submitted an excerpt from my debutContinue reading “Fellowship in Prose”
Eric Avedissian 