Reyna Marder Gentin, writer and author of “Unreasonable Doubts”
Reyna Marder Gentin is an attorney and writer and studied writing at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Unreasonable Doubts is her first novel.
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Sandra Squire Fluck
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Sandra has a B.A. and M.A. in English literature from U.C.L.A., and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the Lancaster Theological Seminary. She has taught college-level courses in literature, creative writing, composition, and technical writing in Southern California and Pennsylvania. Her most recent poetry chapbooks are available online. She is also the author of Experiential English and Language Play. Sandra is the founder and co-owner of The Write Launch, an online literary magazine, and bookscover2cover, a book review site.
Chris Pellizzari and the influence of Federico García Lorca
Chris Pellizzari is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including most recently Good Works Review and Counterclock. He…
Unreasonable Doubts
The cast of characters in Unreasonable Doubts by Reyna Marder Gentin could have stepped out of a Shakespearean play. Consider the lovers Liana Cohen and Jakob Weiss, the counselor Rabbi…
White Dancing Elephants
White Dancing Elephants was a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Women take center stage in Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut short story collection, White Dancing Elephants. As characters, these…
Tiger and Clay – Syria Fragments
“There are memories for which we can live more than a life time.” —Brother of Rana Abdulfattah Photographs over the past several years have shown migrants and refugees crossing the…
A Book List for Facilitating Workshops for Veterans
Leilani Squire is a published poet and author, CCA Certified Creativity Coach, and Associate Member of The Dramatist Guild. For the past seven years she has facilitated creative writing workshops…
Messy and Allotrope – two novellas
Messy “Messy” by Robert Hilles is a love story that captures the complexities of love: the difficulties, paradoxes, ambiguities, passions, and truths. It aches, struggles, retrieves, and falls back upon…
Leilani Squire on Veterans’ Writing and “The Storytellers”
Leilani Squire is home when she is swimming in the waters of the island of her birth, O`ahu. She is a writer, poet, award-winning playwright, and Associate Member of The Dramatist Guild. She is a CCA Certified Creativity Coach and facilitates creative writing workshops for veterans and military families. She produces Returning Soldiers Speak, an annual event where active duty and veterans tell their stories through prose and poetry to the community; and is senior editor of the anthology The Storytellers: Veterans and Family Members Write About Military Life.
The Scent Of My Skin: From Libya, London and every world I live in
There is a short poem of seven lines in The Scent Of My Skin: From Libya, London and every world I live in that embodies the metaphorical and literal edifice…
Liu Xiaobo: Tyranny, Freedom of Conscience, and the Incompleteness of the Individual
After Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, I followed the news about him—this dissident public intellectual who had given the Chinese government a major headache. Having read many books about nonviolent thought and action, I sensed that Liu Xiaobo’s life and writing could deepen my understanding further: He believed that words followed by action could change the direction of a country.