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Archive of past newsletters:
2018
Kickstart – Tricia Knoll on poetry | Market feedback | Church advice poem
2017
Kickstart: Tracy Prince on photo histories, flash markets, freedom in nature flash
December 2017
Kickstart: Ernestine Hayes on memoir, writing daily, Camino memoir /November 2017
Kickstart: Rene Denfeld on darkness and hope, unusual fish, break-up flash fiction/ October 2017
Kickstart: Laura Garwood on book editing, creative breakthroughs, “brother-cousin” memoir/September 2017
Kickstart: Willa Schneberg on art and healing, the ellipsis, reflections from an expat in Phnom Penh/July 2017
Kickstart: Shanna Germain on inventing words, markets for memoirists, driving home memoir/June 2017
Kickstart: Catherine Magdalena on memoir, a dark website, Mom goes deer hunting / April 2017
Kickstart – James Bash on blogging, inclusive language, rat fantasy story / March 2017
Kickstart: Sally McPherson on book readings, rejections from editors, hospital fiction / February 2017
Kickstart: Judith Arcana on radio and poetry, Stafford celebrations, property management essay / January 2017
2016
Kickstart: Margaret Malone, The New Engagement, bathroom flash fiction / December 2016
Kickstart: Creativity and Lynda Barry, BeLonging anthology, poem about painting / November 2016
Kickstart: All about writing prompts! / October 2016
Kickstart: Writing plays, Howard Schneider reading, Costa Rica travel essay / July 2016
Kickstart – Street fair guidebook, the secondary “I,” an unhappy wife (short story) / June 2016
Writers and the law (Part 2), slow computers, lead vs. led / May 2016
Kickstart: Writers and the law (Part 1), “which” vs. “that,” running memoir / April 2016
Kickstart: Kickstart students on writing, wedding engagement essay / March 2016
Kickstart: Prose poems, Gina Williams, nature park prose poem / February 2016
Kickstart: Microfiction, Clara Ray Rusinek Klein, relationship short story / January 2016
2015
Kickstart: Title: Bart King, goals, [a place for writers], children’s story / December 2015
Kickstart: Travel writing, foreign terms, Morocco story / November 2015
Kickstart – Writing ideas, behind the newsletter, interior monologue, river poem / October 2015
Kickstart – Odd couples, Timberline Review, (semi-)colons, & a senior superhero story / August – September 2015
Kickstart: Clichés, Brian Doyle, punctuating quotes, & personal ad memoir / July 2015
Kickstart: Prepping your book, summer classes, & farm memoir / June 2015
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