Writing Portfolio

articles - prose - poetry

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Tips from an Editor: How to Write an Article

So, you wrote an article, and the editor sent it back to you and said that it “wasn’t an article.” Or, you’re thinking about writing an article, but you’re concerned that maybe it’s just a personal essay.

Content Creation Can Be a Lifeline for Disabled Creators—but It Can Also Put Their Mental and Physical Health at Risk

"If I don’t make content, I lose subscribers, period. Losing subscribers means lost income."

Reasons Why the Guardians of the Galaxy Game Was MAYBE a Better Movie Than the Actual Guardians of the Galaxy Movie

There was a dancing llama. OK? A dancing llama that you can pet. With hair. Not like normal llama hair, but a full on ‘do.

Finding Accessible Hobbies for Chronically Ill People

Even if we can’t do what we did before, it’s critical that we find new things to keep us motivated and entertained. If we stay stuck on what we can’t do for too long, we can hurt our mental health.

(Items without links are on press.)

Articles —

Culture & Media

• It’s Not “Quietly Quitting”— It’s Doing Your Job in The Spectator

• Content Creation Can Be a Lifeline for Disabled Creators—but It Can Also Put Their Mental and Physical Health at Risk in The Daily Dot

• “The ‘Quotes’ Are Not Things I Said.” Far Right Media Turns a Disabled Woman’s Interview Into a Promotion for Ableism in The Daily Dot

• Reasons Why the Guardians of the Galaxy Game Was MAYBE a Better Movie Than the Actual Guardians of the Galaxy Movie in The Daily Drunk

Health & Wellness

• Changing Health Changes Careers: Interview with Mugabi Byenkya on in Spoonie Mag

• Finding Accessible Hobbies for Chronically Ill People in LupusChick

• Spoonie Life Hacks: Making Your House Work for You in Conscious Being Magazine

• The Glorification of Mental Illness in Creative Spaces: Interview with Eli Shroom in Spoonie Mag

• Why Others Don’t Believe People With Invisible Illness in LupusChick

Writing & Craft

• Advocacy and Resistance Poetry: Interview with F.I. Goldhaber in Spoonie Mag

• From Editor to Author: Interview with Kristin Houlihan in Spoonie Mag

• Tips from an Editor: How to Write an Article in chillsubs

Creative Writing —

Flash

• A List of Things That Pissed Me Off This Week In No Particular Order in Bureau of Complaint

• A Magic Trick in Blink Ink (Yale University)

• Another Successful Social Interaction in Vast Chasm Magazine (Vast Literary Press) // editor's pick

• Marriage in The 50-Word Stories of 2022 (Vine Leaves Press)

• Oneiric in Unlikely Stories Mark V (Unlikely Books)

• Tidbits From a Not Person in A Coup of Owls

Not Flash

• A Place I Used to Go but No Longer Do in Pennsylvania's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Nonfiction (Z Publishing House)

• A Rose by Any Other Name in Wordgathering Journal (Syracuse University)

• Looking Glass in Pennsylvania's Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction (Z Publishing House)

• Love is Gross in MASKS Literary Magazine (Columbia College) // award winner

• Love is Gross in Wordgathering Journal (Syracuse University)

• Nourishment in A Thin Slice of Anxiety (Anxiety Press)

• Putting the Laughter in Slaughterhouse in Writing Disorder

• Shmishshmorshen Kitty in Bitchin’ Kitsch

• The Apartment in Proud to Be, Vol. 11 (Southeast Missouri State University Press)

• The Frozen Fingertipped Foragers in Miniskirt Magazine

• The Only Thing I Don't Resent in Chronically Lit

Poetry —

• Abaddon in de-Curated

• A Million Things I Didn’t Have in de-Curated

• Egghead in Substantially Unlimited

• Even Broken Clocks Are Right Twice A Day... in Breath and Shadow

• Fight! Superman / Homelander / Omniman in The Daily Drunk

• Forgiveness in Folio (Holy Family University)

• Great, Now There’s Cat Fur On My Tongue in Pure in Heart Stories

• Have You Tried Yoga? in Shuf Poetry

• How Did The Sky Get So Blue? in Pure in Heart Stories

• I Am My Own Undoing in Corporeal Lit Mag (en*gendered)

• Kitty Sick in Shuf Poetry

• Letters From A Serial Killer in de-Curated

• Morning Rules in de-Curated

• Neurocognitive Breakup in Shuf Poetry

• Ol’ What’s-Her-Face in Rise Up Review

• On When I Rediscover Tumblr... in Unlikely Stories Mark V (Unlikely Press)

• On Writing in de-Curated

• Overwrought in Neologism Poetry Journal

• Playstation 5 Conforms to Traditional Gender Roles in The Daily Drunk

• Reason #492 Why Evolution Is A Lie in Bullshit Lit Anthology (Bullshit Press)

• sadface in Corporeal Lit Mag (en*gendered)

• The Curse Of The Wonky Eye in Pure in Heart Stories

• This Isn’t About My Snake Plant in The Parliament Literary Journal

• Turn My Ugly Into Modern Art in Corporeal Lit Mag (en*gendered)

• U DOWN WITH OCD? (U KNOW ME!) in Trouble Maker Fire Starter

• ugh, math?? in a poem?? in voidspace

• When A Period Is An Ellipses in Trouble Maker Fire Starter