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Four Writers Writing

Posted on February 3, 2015 by allisongreenwriter

The secret of my success? My writing group. Over on her blog, Straight-No-Chaser Mom, Jennifer D. Munro tells the story of how she joined the group and I started writing what would become The Ghosts Who Travel with Me. Happy … Continue reading →

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Ghosts

Posted on October 30, 2014 by allisongreenwriter

The first words of the project that became The Ghosts Who Travel with Me were written in fall 2008. As the nights lengthened and darkness ate into my mornings and afternoons, I wrote free-form responses to chapters from Richard Brautigan’s … Continue reading →

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Reunion

Posted on September 25, 2014 by allisongreenwriter

Bears like the Eagle’s Nest Motel in Priest River, Idaho. They lounge on the railings, shimmy up poles, and dangle from porch swings. We spent a couple of nights there this summer while attending a family reunion at nearby Diamond … Continue reading →

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A Fairy Tale

Posted on August 30, 2014 by allisongreenwriter

Once upon a time, four writers went to Fort Worden for a writing retreat: Waverly, Donna, Jennifer, and Allison. They spent a week working on short stories, essays, memoirs, novels, and proposals. They compared submission spreadsheets. One night, they read … Continue reading →

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Needs Improvement

Posted on July 31, 2014 by allisongreenwriter

Before report cards My parents are cleaning out. Dad tells me he’s got a stack of cookbooks going to Goodwill and do I want to pick through them? Mom stops by to drop off an envelope. It’s got my report … Continue reading →

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A Sentence

Posted on June 24, 2014 by allisongreenwriter

“This, too, is America: two middle-aged women, one North American and one Central American, eating cheese and apples in campsite #4 of the Mountain View Campground on Little Redfish Lake.” I wrote this sentence in a notebook six years ago … Continue reading →

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Writing Process Blog Tour

Posted on May 6, 2014 by allisongreenwriter

Thanks to Ann Hedreen for tagging me in the Writing Process Blog Tour. Ann is the author of the forthcoming Her Beautiful Brain; read her work at The Restless Nest. What am I working on? Island, 1969 describes a pivotal … Continue reading →

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I took my empty book bag to the writing conference that was here in Seattle recently, and I wandered through the book fair and scooped up free tortilla chips at the receptions and waved at my friends across the crowded … Continue reading →

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Ornaments

Posted on December 24, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

After my grandmother died in 1994, my girlfriend-at-the-time and I went to my grandfather’s house to help him decorate his Christmas tree. We brought the boxes of ornaments up from the basement and unwrapped the wads of tissue paper. There … Continue reading →

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Singing in English

Posted on November 13, 2013 by allisongreenwriter

I never doubted that English belonged to me. Even the most convoluted academic English, studded with the hegemonies, dichotomies, and Foucaultisms of my graduate literary theory seminars, seemed available for my use. I believed that, with practice, I could wield … Continue reading →

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