Blog Posts

Land of Like

By Kate Blackwood / November 26, 2023

It’s my season to hit the heart button – and choose gratitude for the writing community those ‘likes” represent.

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Writing about music

By Kate Blackwood / September 30, 2023

“This Woman’s Work” gathers 17 essays by women who use concrete experiences of music – a mix tape, a favorite song, an embarrassing encounter with a rock star – to open up larger stories.  

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Live from Kyiv

By Kate Blackwood / August 26, 2023

The conversation on an August Saturday morning (evening for those in Ukraine) was delightful, informative, heartrending – and, like the novel is purported to be, heartening

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Person stands, holding a baby, in a desert landscape next to a sign that says "Sloan Canyon"

Imagining a landscape – then going

By Kate Blackwood / May 27, 2023

Can we only write about places we’ve been? My recent trip to a Nevada wilderness area provided a good test case.

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