“As the oldest literary magazine in the nation, our selected works reflect the breadth of the American experience, and encompass any voices that are committed to telling rich narratives that challenge the status quo.” From North American Review’s website: “We read during the academic year. We close during university breaks. The North American Review is the oldest literary magazine in America (founded in 1815) and one of the most respected. We are interested in high-quality poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on any subject; however, we are especially interested in work that addresses contemporary North American concerns and issues, particularly with the environment, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class. We read during the academic year. We close during most university breaks. The submission fee helps us defer a small portion of our printing and distribution costs. We like stories that start quickly and have a strong narrative arc. Poems that are passionate about subject,…
Month: February 2020
Responsibilities . . . Prompt #472
What responsibilities did you have as a child? What was required of you from the adults in your life? What responsibilities do you carry over from your childhood? What responsibilities do you want to give up? You are free to write whatever you want, using these prompts to spark ideas.
Receive allowance? Prompt #471
As a child, did you get an allowance? If yes, how much? What did you spend it on? If you didn’t receive an allowance, what did you do for spending money? If you didn’t receive spending money, do you wish you had? What would you have spent it on?
The Dream Lover
In The Dream Lover, Elizabeth Berg imagines the life of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (better known as the writer, George Sand) from childhood to her last days. In her captivating style of writing, Elizabeth explores the difficulties of being a woman in a man’s world in the 1800’s. Elizabeth departs from her previous writing style of using fiction as a vehicle to tackle important subjects to using a real person as the starting point to begin this novel, based on true stories. Elizabeth explains how she came to write The Dream Lover, “One day, while reading The Writer’s Almanac, I came across some very intriguing facts about the life of Aurore Dudevant, who took the pen name George Sand when she began publishing novels. Given that her life seemed to be so interesting, so dramatic, I wanted to read a novel about her—I prefer reading novels to biographies, because fiction…