Sarah Kanning

My blogging has seriously fallen off of late, but for mostly positive reasons: I’ve been making good progress on the novel project, and have also been trucking along on a short story due in October for an upcoming anthology (details on that when I’m sure it will all actually come together; haven’t heard an update [...]

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Found this en route to other things; it’s an attempt to demystify for writers the several varieties of rejection letters they send out, interspersed with haiku to keep things light
such as
I love your story
Please send more soon. But only
ones without vampires.
and
liked your writing
but I didn’t get what was
with the big robot
Their levels of warm [...]

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Note: This is a political post that pertains to writing and the imagination.

I read with some interest the discussion about Sarah Palin firing and then rehiring within a day the city librarian (among other city employees) as a “loyalty test” while Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (population: 4,600 at the time). You can read [...]

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Just read an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education which was about librarianship and jobs in libraries, but it contained this paragraph:
I know of one job seeker who has a Ph.D. in English, publications including a scholarly monograph, many years of college teaching experience, a recent MLIS, and substantial preprofessional library experience. She sent [...]

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I gave a talk recently at a reading festival on “Finding a Home for Your Writing.” A lot of the content from that talk is relevant here, so I’ll be posting it bit by bit, but one thing that I forgot to include(!!!!) is Bonnie Hearn Hill’s concept of the Rule of Twelve.
This is from [...]

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