Category Archives: Literature

100 Notable Small Press Books, 2025

Posted on December 1, 2025 by allisongreenwriter

Today LitHub has published a list of 100 notable small press books of 2025, and I had the great honor of choosing two of them: The River People, by Liz Kellebrew, and Sixty Seconds, by Steven Mayfield. When the call came about a year … Continue reading →

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One Writer’s Life: November 2024

Posted on November 8, 2024 by allisongreenwriter

A few weeks ago I was in my campus office teaching when my computer suddenly rebooted, kicking me out. It took several minutes to get back into Zoom, but when I did, my students were still there, kindly waiting for … Continue reading →

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One Writer’s Life: September 2024

Posted on October 8, 2024 by allisongreenwriter

In the summer of 1996 I took a class called “Dangerous Writing” from a writer I didn’t know named Tom Spanbauer. Portland State University ran summer classes in Cannon Beach, Oregon, and although a week in an upscale beach town … Continue reading →

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One Writer’s Life: August 2024

Posted on August 31, 2024 by allisongreenwriter

The last week of August, I spent a few days in Westport, Washington, with my writer friend Jennifer D. Munro. I had intended to work on my book about the Mount St. Helen’s eruption, but there wasn’t enough time to … Continue reading →

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One Writer’s Life: July 2024

Posted on August 5, 2024 by allisongreenwriter

In Medellín and Bogotá, Arline and I attended a wedding, strolled the botanical gardens, drank great coffee, and enjoyed the enthusiasm of Colombian fans as they rooted for their team in the Copa América. We never felt unsafe, but had … Continue reading →

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Thirty Days Thirty Poems

Posted on April 30, 2023 by allisongreenwriter

Over twenty years ago I fell in love and wrote a flurry of poems because that’s what new lovers often do. But when new love settled into daily love, I returned to prose. Now I’m writing poems again, this time … Continue reading →

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The Books that Traveled with Me

Posted on January 5, 2023 by allisongreenwriter

Maybe it’s the pandemic; maybe it’s social media rotting my brain; maybe it’s the grief and stress of handling my father’s estate and taking care of my mother, who has Alzheimer’s, but I have found it difficult lately to read … Continue reading →

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Books to Awaken Heart and Soul

Posted on August 2, 2022 by allisongreenwriter

My writing brain went into hibernation during the pandemic and stayed in its cave for months after my father died. But I never stopped reading. Books have given me solace and hope these last few years; they have kept me … Continue reading →

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What’s Best

Posted on December 24, 2019 by allisongreenwriter

It’s “best of” season. Best books of the year. Movies. Songs. And because we are approaching 2020, the lists are expanding to cover the entire decade. It’s hard to resist such categorization. I keep a list of books I’ve read … Continue reading →

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Of Books and Brownstones

Posted on October 31, 2019 by allisongreenwriter

  As a child, I knew nothing about the east coast; what I understood about the metropolis of New York City came from Sesame Street. The show debuted in 1969, so my family was probably living in Wisconsin when I … Continue reading →

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