Category: Lifestyle
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Best of the Net Nomination: ‘The Ghost Can Stay’ published in Atticus Review
(picture me jumping up and down on a couch) I’m thrilled to share that Atticus Review has nominated my story ‘The Ghost Can Stay’ for Best of the Net Nominations. Literary Journal Editors are allowed to nominate 6 poems and 2 works of prose, both fiction and nonfiction. The story details what it’s like to […]
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Five Minute Lit: Born at IKEA
A 100-word tribute to the stuffed animal that got my daughter through eye surgery. Love you, PEEG. Love you, Five Minute Lit.
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25 Things About Me
I hate olives. I just do. A hockey stick knocked out my first tooth when I was 6. Weird things I like include pets with human names, miniature things, abandoned shopping malls, and marshmallows. I was a dancer at Disneyworld and Disneyland Paris when I was in high school. I can’t curl my tongue. It’s […]
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Art Project: “One Sentence Stories” at The Community House in Winnetka
Watch where you walk…One Sentence Stories are OUT! In collaboration with Off Campus Writers’ Workshop and The Community House, these stories are derived from “Turning Points” (Windy City Press, 2021). Walk the various Community House entrance points to see more (mine is located by the Fitness Center).
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The REVIVAL Zine at Cornell
I Lose All Willpower By Kelly Q. Anderson Cake in the shower, in the driver’s seatButtercream on the seatbelt, playing on the radioCake on the bad days, cake on the MondaysI can frost any cruel man in sprinklesAnd light his advice on fireWatch waxy smile liquefyHappy birthday to meAs he explains how candles work
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Micro: The Citron Review
Too Much December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review by Kelly Q. Anderson A marriage can end over morning coffee while waiting on Google results for criminal defense attorneys. Legs can fall out when you rush to open the smashed-in door of the car, what about the baby. A mole, a gray shadow, a lymph node can […]
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University of Iowa Alumni News & Happy Friday
It was a delight to be featured in Alumni News for my alma mater, the University of Iowa. I spent four glorious years writing in Iowa City and the many hours of critiquing and workshopping are nostalgic and smile-inducing to this day. Moreover, I’m so pleased at the shoutout for Off Campus Writers Workshop (my […]
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