Summer Hammond

Today's Q&A is with Summer Hammond. @SummerDHammond grew up in rural east Iowa, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Read on to learn what she shared with us about her life and fears as a writer... thegoodlifereview.com/2023/03/15/aut…

"Row upon row of green, shimmery stalks, leaves turning liquid in the breeze. The cornfields are my sea. Mom says, wistful, “I wanted land, gardens. I wanted my kids to run barefoot, and climb trees.” She didn’t want a double-wide..." thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ten/iowa… @SummerDHammond

"Your home is supposed to keep you safe, especially when it’s double wide and yellow like a lemon pie. After watching a news show about formaldehyde in trailer homes, Mom and Dad had the house checked. The levels of formaldehyde – lethal" - Iowa Blues, and Greens

Lemon Pie with Formaldehyde

I'm pleased to share with you my essay 'Iowa Blues, and Greens' inspired by the strange ingredients of my rural east Iowa coming-of-age: cornfield sea, toxic yellow trailer, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the complicated legacy of intergenerational grief: thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ten/iowa…

Hello friends, and happy Thursday... also known as Issue Release Day. We're so excited about our 10th issue and thrilled to showcase the talented writers and artists whose fine work has made this our most beautiful issue yet... thegoodlifereview.com #WritingCommunity

It is our great pleasure to announce that @sfreligh and her story "Heaven" is the winner of our 2023 Longstory contest. We'd also like to congratulate @SummerDHammond as the runner up.

Jehovah's Witnesses, the roller rink, and the salvation of a wire mother. My story "Skate Night" in the Texas Review: thetexasreview.org/item/2021/vol4…

Announcing the winners of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize! - *|missourireview.com/contests/jeffr…|*

@TBQuarterly You are a writer, truth-teller, and healer. Thank you.

As for the *emerging" writers, you're already here. Just start calling yourself a writer. You're good. You're beautiful. You'll totally make it. Try not to cry as you get gutted by how difficult it is, it draws attention from the roving gangs of discourse

You should start writing again. The idea of Literary writing is made up, a construct to gatekeep. Literary writing is a conversation with other writers, and anyone can join in at any time. Anyone who tells you there are rules is a gatekeeper.

6 days til launch, so here's a little sneak preview of our Issue 54 lineup. ❤️

Write because you are going to run out of everything else. Fucks to give, money, energy, even life itself. But you will never, ever run out of beautiful ways to describe the moon. It's also your only talent! Live más.

Literary institutions are always selling workshops, services, advice, hustles, enlightenment, degrees, dreams. We sell Taco Bell.

Do you enjoy useless gatekeeping, not making money, insults to your face, and moments of heartache so profound it will bring you to your knees? Creative writing calls for you.

@JaredPovanda I admire you. You make me want to try for the 'nearly impossible'. Thank you.

@HLCornetto @JaredPovanda Happy Birthday!! Have a beautiful day of celebration. I am excited to read your work!

My essay "Back Roads: A Love Story" - read by me! Is a finalist for the Missouri Review Miller Audio Prize - and up today missourireview.com/miller-aud-cas…

My story "I Don't See a Cat" is in the newest issue of Passenger's Journal with a wonderful read aloud by Nina M. Chung and I am in tears!! #hammond" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">passengersjournal.com/volume-3-issue…

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