Author: Viannah Duncan

And it’s a long time in coming! My website has been online in some form or iteration since December 2001, so if you’re visiting today, welcome and thank you. It does not matter how slowly you …

Over on Instagram, I have been putting up one tarot card per day in the month of October and relaying what that card may mean for you as a writer or editor of writing. The first …

I’m pleased to announce a new series of interviews I’m hosting with successful writers from all across the writing spectrum. Are you a successful writer or poet? (Define “successful” however you like! There are different ways …

I’m in the process of editing pieces for an anthology that I’m putting together with a group of other writers and editors in the Los Angeles area, and one of my accepted submissions has an author …

In honor of Poetry Month, I give you a 30-day poetry challenge.

NOTE: This is barely a review; it’s more like a recap. On March 1, I headed down to Azusa Pacific University by bus to see Billy Collins read some of his poetry. My mother, who works …

Set in 1930s and ‘40s France and Poland, Amandine is Marlena de Blasi’s first work of fiction. (She’s the author of the memoirs A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, among other …

1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle …

I’m sure, if you’re reading Amish Otaku, you already know what Pocky is. If not, let me give you quick run down. Pocky is a thin breadstick dipped in chocolate or some other flavor of melty …

Assignment: drama (playwriting), about 1 page. “Trash or Treasure,” focus on IMAGE.