From our associates at Apothecary Community Art Space: Want to spend some quality one-on-one conversation time with authors in your area? Short on time, long on manuscripts? Tired of your traditional, fuddy-duddy creative writing workshop? Do we have the workshop for you! The Juniper Bends Author Collective presents: Speedshopping! Bring in a short (1-2 page) … Continue reading »
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Writing Prompts From Redaction! Pt. 3
Our friends, Matt and Mesha, originally built up Redaction for an undergraduate research project. The fact that it’s taken on a life of its own proves that a good idea lasts long after its creators leave. For those folks in Asheville, the Redaction group meets on Fridays in the UNCA Writing Center. We welcome serious … Continue reading »
Writing Prompts from Redaction! pt. 2
To continue the thread of Amy’s post re: writing prompts from our writing group, here are some flotsam & some jetsam. As an imagist poet, the series of concrete image writing prompts we utilized throughout the summer were not only handy, but miraculous: 5 concrete images on the topic “Friday Night” (I did more than … Continue reading »
Highlights from Summer Redaction! 1
Involving crazy writing prompts, which you are welcome to steal. We’d love it if you’d share. Over the summer, our writing group, Redaction!–which is a collaborative community space where anyone can share their writing and receive thoughtful critique–took a more experimental turn. Instead of bringing in pieces of writing, we got together and wrote short … Continue reading »
What is An Author Collective?
Let’s be honest: writing has never been a path to fame or fortune. As writers, very few of us achieve overwhelming economic success. Enough to survive, to keep us together between grants and residencies, or just enough to keep writing for the demands of publishers. Publishers themselves are mostly looking for the “next bestseller,” and … Continue reading »
Chett Tiller: Lies A Lot
Chett Tiller is named after a grandfather who he never met and raised to be a scientist or a mathematician for NASA. Unlike NASA, Chett has proved that there’s life on Mars, little green life that wants to turn your brains into some kind of delicious and gray empanada. He is, after all, an investigator … Continue reading »
Allison Smith: An Actual Nice Person
Allison is a writer of non-fiction essays, feminist Tweets, and the occasional bomb-ass cover letter. She would hold hands with the Oxford comma if it asked, but she won’t force it upon your writing. She loves the weird web-y world of communication, wants to follow you on Instagram, and can’t wait to see where publishing … Continue reading »
Eben Fenton: Proscicles
Eben Bruce Fenton grew up with animals and one sister who still wants a tiny bluish box to translate the yellow dog’s tremulous whimpers. Eben reads prose to ignore the antic warnings. As penance he labors bent across minutia-based fiction in a lightless downstairs apartment overseen by two black eyed and quiet Daschunds. He speaks … Continue reading »
Jesse Rice-Evans: Good at Talking
Jesse Rice-Evans is a lapsed Catholic with a penchant for nectarines, community acupuncture, catnip and, like any self-respecting poet, sunsets. She writes surrealist and imagistic prose poetry about myth, magic, sex & food. She also writes critical cultural essays that moulder on her hard drive and quickly dissolve into untimeliness. She is our event coordinator … Continue reading »
Amy Borg: The Idea Girl
Even before randomly bringing up the idea of an Author Collective to some of her awesome writing colleagues at UNCA, Amy has always been passionate about discovering and creating literature. Her past lives include being a Linguistics student at NYU and a Graphic Design student at the Art Institute of Charlotte. Not even she has … Continue reading »
Introducing!
…the Juniper Bends Author Collective. We are a passionate group of young writers based in Asheville, NC, brought together by our love of the written word–not as a consumable product, but as self-expression, communication, art. We despise boundaries, refuse to be confined by genre or form, and adore the weird and wonderful. Juniper Bends began … Continue reading »
