Category: nonfiction

• 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.

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  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)

• 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.

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  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

• Summer Reading List

  In which Emma totally freaks out about books.

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  June 30, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A festival of linkage, All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, books, Fiction, nonfiction, poems, poetry, Poetry Rock Stars, poetry superheroes, poets, reading, readings, The Thoughts of a Poetry Fan Girl, [expletive deleted]

• The Story Behind “The Damage”

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

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  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

• Home, Where My Love Lies Waiting, Silently For Me

  In which Emma kind of goes on a rant, basically.

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  April 13, 2013

  A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, Alabama, books, creative nonfiction, creative writing, education, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Errata, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia, Home, Inquiries into academics, Lia Purpura = AMAZING, mullings and ramblings, nonfiction, Power to the People, random musings, ranting and raving, reading, readings, Teacher Texts, teaching writing, The evolution of Emma, thought for the day, Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl, Where I Often Travel