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 »
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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 »
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 »
