Ashley Elizabeth

I don’t do resolutions, but goals are just as great! Here are some of my writing-specific goals for this year:

• Keep writing
• Keep submitting
• Submit more than I did in 2018
• Complete 3 30-in-30s! (One in January with my little, one in April for NaPoWriMo, and one for Zoetic Press if they have WLYA this year)
• Write more confessional poems and pieces
• Become a featured reader
• Expand my writing themes past relationships and blackness. Hopefully compile a chapbook about family, but we’ll see how that goes.
• Not give up on a manuscript as a whole. I may give up on individual pieces but overall, I’ll try not to give up on them as much as I used to. I have a steadily growing slush pile
• Be more intentional about writing this year. Get more organized.
• Not be scared to self-promote
• Apply for MFA programs (laugh with me)

Feel free to hold me accountable to these things and ask questions/for updates on any of them. Or if you want to be my cheerleader, be my guest!