Reader & Writer
I’ve started to be a little more intentional about booking seminars (I’m open!) and promoting my Substack and books. Sort of. I was asked recently to be on a podcast, Written in the Stars, put out by Lansing Community College. Thanks for reading Freeze Frame: How to Write Flash Memoir! Subscribe for free to receive new... Continue Reading →
So on the way up to Grand Rapids for a writing conference while n the bus, I saw that I got an acceptance. Great! It was for a flash I'd written awhile back and then largely forgot about. Then while out running, I remembered it at exactly the same place in the run that I... Continue Reading →
Actually this piece has BEEN out. I just didn’t know it. Someone at work was asking about my new book, Woman of a Certain Age, a story collection, and I said let me show you my website. I googled my name and up popped the piece, published online in Third Wednesday. Okay, that’s a surprise.... Continue Reading →
Riding Bikes at Night in October was accepted nearly a year ago and I had to wait until now for it to come out—But it is worth the wait. Riding Bikes is out in Ink in Thirds. Again, the piece was something not quite new and not quite poetry: A prose poem? Maybe. It is... Continue Reading →
“Three Doors” is a small piece, 1,321 words, included in an anthology put out by The Writers’ Journal. I saw a call for submissions in Duotrope, an online platform that allows users to access lists of publishers and agents and offers a handy submission grid to help you keep track of submissions. I pay a subscription fee... Continue Reading →
I love going to the garden to see my tomatoes, red from the sun and abundant heat, to inspect the cucumbers like little water balloons almost about to burst, and the beans, heavy on the vine or beginning as string ready to wax out into bulbous pods. There is this strange mix of emotions: pride... Continue Reading →
New work out now-Zen Garden, go to Rock and a Hard Place https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9CRNTPM I started with a true incident: the basement at the townhouse I first lived in in Okemos always smelled like weed. I suspected the neighbors of hotboxing. My laundry left to dry down there ended up smelling like skunk. The odor wafted up... Continue Reading →
The Machine Has No Clothes has been reprinted (again) by Coin-Operated, a zine project out of Scotland. About Coin-Operated: Coin-Operated Press CIC is an artist-led social enterprise run by Chloe Henderson. We are based in Scotland, where we facilitate creative workshops, host zine fairs, manage the DJCAD Zine Library, create educational zine content, and produce, publish,... Continue Reading →
2024 is off to a fruitful start—not so much this writer. Pure of Heart came out in February in Fathom. A very sweet short story (14 min. read) about a simple girl, in terms applied from the past: a servant, who become ingrained into a family of middle-class means and how that relationship touches every... Continue Reading →
I have a new piece up at Random Sample Review. These latest acceptances have been vital to keeping me writing--since the break up with my agent and rejection of my nonfiction manuscript. Rejection--how it feels, these days. Anyway! I'll live n the moment with Starting Over https://randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/starting-over/ https://randomsamplereview.com/2022/07/28/starting-over/ Photo by Eileen Pan
My essay, "Books As Signposts in Our Life," has been published in Still Point Arts Quarterly for a special themed issue on books and book lovers! The digital edition is FREE. The print edition is full of beautiful illustrations--the price for a PRINT issue is $14.50 plus $3.95 shipping. Go here to download: https://indd.adobe.com/view/675e0ae9-707b-46a1-aadd-ecd1384592d7 “The... Continue Reading →
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Jane Hertenstein 