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Grad School
I’ve gotten bitten by the grad school bug, and I think I’m ready to finally apply. It’s been over two years since I’ve been in school, so this whole process feels so weird. I have to find my “best work” whatever that means, and I have to choose between poetry and nonfiction. University of Baltimore…
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New Publication
Hey y’all! New publication up at For the Sonorous Link just to my poem titled “growing up black girl” is here I am so proud of this piece. Please check it out & let me know what you think in the comments below! – A. Elizabeth
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2nd person vs 3rd person
So I’m working on For You, My Best Friend, and I am realizing that half of it, I have written in the first and second person and half of it I have written in first and third person. The struggle. Both sound authentic to the work, but the second person definitely sounds more accusatory even…
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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.
Ashley Elizabeth 