Tag: Chloe Caldwell
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The Samps Awards For Outstanding Literature
If you follow me on Goodreads or spy on me when I ride the Max to work, you know that I read a lot. Instead of doing an ordinary top ten kind of deal, I’ll pretend to give out some awards. Imagine it’s a foot tall, shiny gold, statue of me in a rocking chair…
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Weekday! And Weekend!
Hi Friends! I have two little fictions in the new issue of WEEKDAY, the cool journal printed right in front of your eyes at the Publication Studios in Portland, Oregon. This issue (their third) even has a cool embossed border and title printed on it. Editor Patricia No told me they were going for something…
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Summer Splash
Hi friends, Summer is officially here and I’m planning on doing some fun stuff and getting a few important things done. Here’s a quick rundown. Tomorrow night, I’ll be hosting a kick-ass outdoor reading at Colonel Summers Park. It starts at 7pm and the weather is supposed to get clear and nice by then so…
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Wife Beaters, Cut-Offs, Flip-Flops, Sunscreen
I don’t think I’ve ever worn flip flops in my life. And I know that driving through the south in July is going to be sweltery (I’ve done it before). I know I won’t be wearing army boots or anything. But I probably won’t wear cut-offs either. Maybe a wife beater, though, you know, I’ll…
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AWP 4EVA
I had a great time at AWP this past week. There were so many people to see, meet, and say hello to that it’s really kind of an impossible mission to complete. Someone should make a video game out of it to inspire kids to become writers. It would be like: I have to make…
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A Weekend of I Remember
This weekend, over at the Future Tense Books Facebook page and also on the new I Remember fan page, you can post your own I Remember. I love the whole I Remember form and often have student do it when I teach workshops and visit classrooms. It’s a pretty great writing prompt that is easy…
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2011 is Dead. Long Live 1997.
Hey–First off, I have new little stories at Unshod Quills and Hart House Review! And since 2011 is just about over, I thought I should post a little year-end thingamajig. A few of my favorite things: Novels: Donald Ray Pollack’s The Devil All the Time and Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers were both pretty kick-ass…
Kevin Sampsell 