Category: creative nonfiction

• Revisionings

  In which Emma talks about being uncomfortable, which is her general state of being. But.

  emmabolden

  October 1, 2013

  A teacher’s education, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, classroom, cool/not cool, creative nonfiction, creative writing, creative writing pedagogy, Department of Writing and Linguistics, disagreeable/agreeable, Doing, education, edumacation, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry, False Dichotomies, Fear and how to face it, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia Southern, Home, learning, Losing courage and other freakouts, my students, pedagogy, poems, poetry, poets, re-purposing, revision, writing community, writing life, writing teachers

• Tonight. Atlanta. Kavarna. True Story. BOOM.

  In which Emma talks about a very traumatic experience and invites you to join her at the True Story reading series to hear more about her traumatic experiences.

  emmabolden

  August 16, 2013

  appearances, bad behavior in public places, BOOM., childhood ailments and other daily disasters, creative nonfiction, creative writing, Emma is very lucky, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Georgia, I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows, nonfiction, plans, reading, readings, Scenes from my childhood, The Journal of Seven Year Old Emily Bolden, What Emma is up to, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words)

• “Back in black / I hit the sack / I been too long / I’m glad to be back.”

  In which Emma learns that if you put linebreaks in AC/DC lyrics they seem very important.

  emmabolden

  July 31, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, accidental confessions, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, Another summer in a winter town, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, Artist’s Renditions, bright shining spots in the very much dark, Circumstances, creative nonfiction, creative writing, disappearances, Doing, DUENDE, Emma hits a wall, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Errata, Fear and how to face it, INTENSE, Losing courage and other freakouts, My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad., poems, poetry, Poetry as therapy, Shifting metaphors, the blank page, The Drama Llama, the heft of cathedral tunes, The only living boy in New York, thought for the day, what I don’t write about, where are you going where have you been, writing and not writing, writing life, writing space

• Hobby Lobby (An Essay)

  Listen, Hobby Lobby. You know how I feel about you. But you have GOT to stop trying to make the Thanksgiving Tree a thing. I mean, at this point, it’s just embarrassing.

  emmabolden

  July 23, 2013

  Brief Updating, crafting, crafts, creative nonfiction, disagreeable/agreeable, DIY, EPIC FAIL, festivity, Glitter (Mariah Carey version), gratuitous photos of whatnot, ill omens, instagram, INTENSE, no words, nonfiction, NOT COOL., Photo for the day, Photography, Pinterest, Poor decisions, The Horror The Horror

• The Story Behind “The Damage”

  In which Emma has a dream come true and talks about it for you. AND MAKES HER SUMMARY RHYME.

  emmabolden

  April 14, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, accidental confessions, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, announcements, appearances, awesome, awesome presses, BOOM., Breaking up is hard to do, Chchchchanges, COLLECT!, contemporary poetry, Corrections, crafting, crafts, creative nonfiction, creative writing, Dear Johns from the Po Biz, Emma is very lucky, EPIC WIN, Glitter (pretty version), Going to eleven, gratitude, hopes and dreams, inspiration, Internet culture, Letters to Inanimate Objects, living without linebreaks, love, love poems, magazines, Milestones and suchness, Movin’ on, nonfiction, One Can Find Me Here (Or At Least My Words), Online culture, Online literary magazines, Other Lit Mags One Should Admire, Other Poets, Other Presses We Should All Be Looking At, poem challenge, poem for the day, poems, poetry, Poetry Daily, poets, publishing, publishing (or not publishing, rejection, rejection slippage, relationships, revision, shameless self-promotion, Squee!, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, submissions, Thanks and thanks again, The big move, the genre line (and stepping over it), The grind, the poem factory, The Secret Life of Objects, Very Excellent News, where are you going where have you been, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words), wonders and apparitions, writing life, You gotta have friends