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When I'm writing dialogue, I often hear the voices of the characters in my head.

Gatherings - December 2024

Discussions

Some of my favourite reads in 2024

Darlings, we only live in moments now (Part 3)

Darlings, we only live in moments now (Part 2)

Darlings, we only live in moments now (Part 1)

Do you ever find yourself having an idea and shutting it down before you even begin to explore it?

💬 Intros + tell us where you're at with your writing?

📬 Send My Love to Anyone with Janis Bridger & Lara Jean Okihiro and Annick MacAskill

Happy 20th Anniversary to my publisher Book*hug Press!

If you are feeling hopeless, then give up hope. I won’t tell anyone. I won’t tell you to put on a brave face or feel better about yourself.

I like proving that you can take any concept—even a familiar one—and make it your own.

All Lit Up Gift Guides

They had everything taken from them because they were Japanese.

The way a frenzied starling / builds her nest in May, / one clutch of twigs / at a time.

Read Palestine Week Nov 29-Dec 5, 2024

Welcome to Send My Love to Anyone!

Author Substacks to Follow

Consulting

🧅 Clinton and I scream just to hear each other.

Why was it rejected so much?

Gatherings: Murray Sinclair, Francesca Albanese, Writers' Trust Speeches, Public Domain Movies, Farzana Doctor, Between the Covers, Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Onion Man 2.0., and more

Solidarity is our strength

Writing about what's lost and found

Q&A

Time Traveller can be used for all genres of writing and can generate some unusual results.

How are you? I’ve never liked the question.

Congratulations to Chimwemwe Undi

Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad

Sometimes I'm gullible

A writing exercise that you can do with another person, a group, or on your own.

No Arms in the Arts Book Club #4

What does your character see when they look in a mirror?

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 41

Gary Barwin's Newer: Not New or Selected Short Fiction

Gatherings

Only a few people knew I was multiple: my spouse, my therapist, my oldest friend.

This is what the future looks like. It was all personal to me. Boxing kangaroos and octopi.

Exposition gets a bad rap. It shouldn't.

Recommended Reading & Resources

Literary Journals and Submission Info

Book Marketing, Promotion, & Professional Practices

Screenwriting Tips & Resources

Recommended Films and Film Sites

Professional Development & Funding Opportunities for Screenwriter

What Readers Are Saying

If you get rejected by an agent, it doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to be a writer.

This is a prompt that forces us to contend with an experience that many of us would prefer not to—being uncomfortable.

The force inside me said, Touch the burning schoolhouse or everyone in your family will die.

Nothing is more urgent to me than genocide

Thinking about all the doors in your life.

The goal here is to help you figure out why you write and why it’s important to you. Having this understanding can motivate you when you don’t feel like writing.

2024 GG Award for Poetry Finalists

Where Do I Start? Writing Prompts

Gatherings | Issue 41

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 40

Many individuals like myself—and women in particular—who are neurodivergent, historically and even now, are seen as unreliable narrators of our own lives.

A Young Boy on Whose Father a Tree Had Fallen

3 poems from "she"

In my first season crewing, I felt a plunging disbelief that I was able to spend time on a sailboat, and the feeling still hasn’t quite left me.

Fundraising Campaigns to Help Palestinians in Gaza

Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin

You took off your jewellery — / removing identity. ' Slipped on your mother’s fur pelt — / that soft second skin.

Gatherings | Issue 40

Smells like 1985

Short Story Today Podcast

How I loved your love

Alarmed but mute

Walking down the street, I come across six severed blonde Barbie heads skewered on the antennae of a black truck.

Raven Series

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 39

"How I loved your love."

Victoria Mbabazi | Issue 39

Call for Submissions: Reinhilde Cammaert Memorial Writing Scholarship

I go to protests / I find others who see the same things I do, and I cling to them / I find others who choose not to see

Writing Advice to My Younger Self

It’s okay to burn bridges.

Gatherings | Issue 39

Jacob Wren | Issue 39

Will maggots form?

I'm a guest on Tim Blackett & Friends

Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery

Rich and Poor by Jacob Wren

I don’t know a single writer who enjoys asking for blurbs. We enjoy getting blurbs from writers we admire but asking is hell!

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 38

He even admitted that he hit the dog from time to time.

Gatherings | Issue 38

Hollay Ghadery's Widow Fantasies

Aaron Kreuter's "Tel Aviv—Toronto Red Eye: A Dialogue" from Rubble Children

Substackers for Palestine Children's Relief: A fundraiser

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 37

I had a massive case of imposter syndrome.

Gatherings | Issue 37

the mind is one mausoleum

Gina Leola Woolsey | Issue 37

Hello stranger

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 36

Gatherings | Issue 36

Cassidy McFadzean | Issue 36

What you have to do is silence the world. You have to tell the world to quit wailing, to calm itself, to let you think.

Where book deals trade hands for fortunes, getting that all important agent may seem impossible. Perhaps bending the rules is the path to success.

Kate Sutherland's Exquisite Creatures

Julie Paul | Issue 36

I had a dream I died and being dead was like being behind a glass wall where you could see and hear everything but no one could see or hear you

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 35

This is what it’s like to be a woman in a conversation.

Onion Man

the nebulous issue of the 'about'

Gatherings | Issue 35

when shrapnel / pierced / through / his chest

Stephen Collis | Issue 35

Strange women, / darkness remains dark until there is light— / so, smoke a cigarette

Chelene Knight | Issue 35

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 34

7 Tragicomic Books That I Love

Gatherings | Issue 34

Malcolm Sutton | Issue 34

Ben Robinson | Issue 34

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 33

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Corinna Chong | Issue 33

Farzana Doctor | Issue 33

Last Licks

Drawings by David Poolman

I am sorrowful and pondering sorrow, an involvement I must wear / and imagine

She is Kirby. The book is She.

Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 32

Jennifer Bowering Delisle | Issue 32

Hana Shafi | Issue 32

Niloufar-Lily Soltani | Issue 32

Gatherings | Issue 32