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Rejections
I get them. I get a lot of them. And each rejection is starting to hurt just a little less, but I must say, each one also gives me something to strive for. Now I’m not the absolute best by any means. I am not perfect. And generally, my writing is very touchy-feely, very passionate,…
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Snippet letter from the first draft
Like I said in my previous post, the first draft of my nonfiction project (there’s a poetry one coming too!) was written entirely in rants, letters, and poems. Here is a combination of all three from the first draft, something like a prose poem. Feel free to comment and/or make suggestions. I originally wrote this a…
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Projects abound
So, like I said in my previous post, I am working on a longer nonfiction work about a previously platonic turned intimate relationship I’ve had over the years, and I am going to admit something to you that I haven’t admitted to anyone: This project scares me. Words normally don’t scare me. But I am…
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update
I have so missed updating everybody with my work and life, so I have a lot of updates for you! I graduated from undergrad May 2015. I taught for a year and a half, leaving the classroom in order to focus more on myself and my writing. However, I do substitute and work as a…
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No, Not “Pretty for a Black Girl”
This is something that I’ve been wanting to write for a long time and finally have.
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Thoughts on 4/27
I asked more from you baltimore to be better to be bold and you are you are angry breaking gray’s shackles a broken voice box and a shattered spine brought you together you are more and I am proud
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Why I am Not Here for Kylie Jenner
My thoughts about a certain someone’s constant cultural appropriation
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Names Are Not Innocent
I may be writing from the completely opposite perspective expected, but this is valid nonetheless.
Ashley Elizabeth 