by Story Embers | Apr 13, 2019 | Podcast |
Today Josiah DeGraaf, Hope Ann, and Brandon Miller discuss the closing of LifeWay Christian Stores and the digitization of book selling as a whole. Does LifeWay’s closing mean that explicitly Christian fiction no longer has a place on the market? How will the shift to...
by Story Embers | Apr 10, 2019 | Poems |
By Emma Huckabee I was born with the sun on my skin and the wind in my hair. Everywhere I looked, I felt the beauty of creation And the hurt we bring to it. Autumn’s tradition perplexed me as I strove to find Why the trees cast off their abundant green gowns into...
by Story Embers | Apr 5, 2019 | Poems |
By Sarah Wiens Father! Father! What are you doing Sawing the branches of our apple tree? Won’t the tree hurt with all those cuts? Won’t it look ugly? No, my child, I’m pruning it, A job that must be done If we want a healthy tree. Come, watch; I’ve just begun. ...
by Story Embers | Mar 30, 2019 | Podcast |
Welcome to episode 6 of the Story Embers Podcast! Today Hope Ann, Josiah DeGraaf, and Rolena Hatfield discuss the types of critique they’ve found the most (and least) helpful and share tips on handling feedback from both categories. Listen to their conversation...
by Story Embers | Mar 27, 2019 | Poems |
By Cainon Leeds I’ve come all the way here to talk to you. I have come from birth and teething rings and standing up and falling down and stealing toys and riding bikes and building forts and telling lies and driving cars and texting friends and rebirth all the way...
by Story Embers | Mar 25, 2019 | Articles |
Many people write stories—but few achieve the uphill climb to publication. Aspiring writers look at how far they need to travel and start feeling so dismal that they’re tempted to quit. They worry that their work is poor and question their calling to authorship....
by Story Embers | Mar 16, 2019 | Podcast |
Welcome to episode 5 of the Story Embers Podcast! Today Hope Ann, Josiah DeGraaf, and Rolena Hatfield discuss a specific type of character many of our subscribers love to write: the witty character. They share their favorite examples of this beloved trope,...
by Story Embers | Mar 13, 2019 | Poems |
By Sarah Spradlin My soul weeps, and its tears glisten in the fading sunlight; emotions run out into the open, empty air of aloneness. On my skin, they trim their graves with salt and leave the ground beneath them thirsty and cracked so that the light might reach my...
