Amy Wilson Sheldon has worked as a magazine editor and writer, after-school director, and media educator. Currently living in Dublin, Ireland, she works as a freelance copyeditor and volunteers with Fighting Words, a creative-writing center for children.
At the beginning of 2014, British writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh sent out some New Year’s cards fashioned like bookmarks. Although the intent of this postal greeting—festooned with illustrations of women writers such as Gertrude Stein and Maguerite Duras—was merely a riff on the VIDA Count, an annual pie chart (created by the organization VIDA: […]
“I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.” — Roddy Doyle
Stories for Social Change in "Flight Behavior" & "The Line"
…is it more important for an entire community bubble to transform or break, or should we perhaps just be paying attention to our individual bubbles? Who do we let in? For all of our emphasis on the good qualities that come along with community, maybe it’s not such a bad idea to consider how an individual’s acquisition of information—in other words, puncturing one’s own bubble—might eventually benefit an entire community.
Ambiance: Where Details Are Everything
I want my children to see other places and get a glimpse, however small, of how life unfolds outside of their own setting.
Does “redemption” ask too much of fiction?
Maybe the beauty of life doesn’t lie in its uniqueness, but rather in the simple way our experiences weave together to form something subtler, something richer.
Oh, Margaret Atwood, how could you have known – approximately 20 years before the advent of Facebook – that there would one day be a place where ordinary people eagerly test their hypotheses about long-lost friends and acquaintances?
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