Tabitha

“I try to think of promotion as an extension of writing rather than as something that comes after the writing is finished. Readings, interviews, reviews, and interactions with readers are ways of continuing to revise the meaning of your writing, even after its publication. Try to retain the creative spirit that inspired your writing in the first

I want to find my place

amongst the people of Advent

but I can’t quite decide who I am.

I want to be pregnant with God

but it takes such a toll on the body.

I have given birth to things before

And labor is hard and untimely //

I want to welcome angels and say yes,

to anything.

but if I saw an angel I would hold him

hostage and send a ransom note of questions

“Most importantly, don’t be afraid to talk about submitting! Publishing is the complicated, unwieldy, but essential system that determines readers’ ability to access our work. If we don’t talk about it, the big questions will haunt us, drawing a divide between the initiated and the uninitiated. Instead of keeping the path to publication a

Art: having something to say

Content: having to say something

Mango Street Lab

Augustine was disappointed when he read the NT for the first time.

“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." (George Eliot, Middlemarch)

“And though attending to what we hate in common is too often all the rage (and it happens also to be very big business), noticing what we love in common, and studying that, might help us survive.”

Ross Gay, Inciting Joy page 10