Tag: new book

• Book Launch Party: MEANINGFUL CONFLICTS

  It was everything and more! Many thanks to the 150 people who gathered at the Community House in Winnetka to toast the worldwide release of Off Campus Writers’ Workshop’s themed anthology Meaningful Conflicts. I have a flash fiction piece and a poem in the book, and I served as a developmental editor (my first editorial…

  KellyQAnderson

  May 4, 2023

  books, Chicago, Lifestyle, poetry, Writer Life

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• Book News: Writing About COVID w/ Capsule Stories

  Let’s get real: it was excruciating to write about COVID while existing through COVID. Whatever I managed to get on the page never felt right and it usually didn’t follow any kind of format, likely because I felt like I was drowning- drowning in e-learning, in uncertainty, in anxiety, and just about every other stressor…

  KellyQAnderson

  July 23, 2021

  books, Lifestyle, Reading, Writer Life

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• At Long Last, Some Book News

  It is delightfully surreal to share that I have a book coming out. My short story ‘Outfit of the Day’ will be published in an Anthology titled ‘Turning Points.’ The backstory: I am a member of Off Campus Writers’ Workshop in Winnetka. The group is marking its 75th Anniversary as a longstanding Chicago writing group…

  KellyQAnderson

  May 12, 2021

  Chicago, Lifestyle, Reading, Writer Life

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