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A flash essay on TripFiction
Hong Kong, My Twenties This essay started as a chunk trimmed from As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back for reasons that had nothing to do with that little packet of excess. Perfectly good words. Sliced from life, in fact. They just needed not to be in that chapter anymore. I transposed the fiction… →
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Alle discusses cervixes, et al., on Ottawa radio
Sam Laprade interviews me on her eponymous show. Trigger warning for parts of the privates. In the U.S., January was National Cervical Health Awareness Month. A critical scene in my novel has to do with Carlie discovering that she has Human papillomavirus (HPV). In treating it, she reconnects with her cervix in a way that affirms… →
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What I’m Reading: When She Comes Back by Ronit Plank
Great great great. This memoir delves so much deeper than the (fascinating) topic of the author’s mother and the cult she won’t quit, even for her children’s sake. Plank also goes into her relationship with her father, who played such an interesting role in the neglect, and the real effect on a child of emotional… →
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Alle interviewed about “Hong Kong, My Twenties.”
I **star** in the latest Author Q&A (love that: author!) over at Under the Gum Tree. If you have not yet read Hong Kong, My Twenties, now is your chance. All thanks to Noah for an excellent experience with this interview. The questions were stimulating and a challenge to answer. →
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Accepted! “Good Girls Don’t Get Stoned.”
After a week of a “Dear Writer: NO” rejection each day from excellent magazines—The Mississippi Review, Upstreet, The Yale Review, The Rumpus, and Joyland—it was a joy to receive an acceptance from Fresh Ink! “Good Girls Don’t Get Stoned” is one of the short stories I culled from my first and as-of-yet unpublished novel, As… →
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“Crashing” on the podcast, Micro. Read by yours truly.
Amazed and honored that my flash “Crashing” is one of three microfictions – “Crashing,” “The Wild Boy” (Alice Kaltman) and “Cowboys And” (Rumaan Alam) on today’s episode of the podcast, MICRO. Mine starts a 4:38, third of the way through. Thirteen minutes to listen to all three. What a discount! Thanks to Drew Hawkins for the… →
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Best. Rejection. Ever.
From The Santa Fe Writers’ Project regarding the creative nonfiction, “Are You There, Avatar? It’s Me, the 70s.” Overall, the editorial board was really interested in this essay, but we felt like there were too many topics brought up without grounding them for the reader. We’d like to see a revision of this.” It’s the… →
Alle C. Hall 