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Introducing Erica Anzalone

Erica Anzalone is the owner and founder of Witch Lit. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in poetry and a doctorate in English from UNLV, where she was awarded a Schaeffer fellowship. Her first book of poetry Samsara won the Noemi Press award. Poems from her second collection have been published in The Literary Review, Juked, Pangyrus, and…

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Experiments, Epiphanies, and Inserting Yourself In Your Writing

Close Study: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Because this novel is in the public domain, you can find the full text at Gutenberg here. I finished Joyce’s autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man earlier this year. When I told people I was reading it, the typical…

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Introducing Carla Damron

Carla Damron is a social worker, advocate, and author. Her crime fiction novel, The Orchid Tattoo, about domestic human trafficking, received four literary awards, including the 2023 NIEA Award in suspense. Her women’s fiction work The Stone Necklace (which deals with grief and mental illness) won the 2017 WFWA Star Award and was the One Community Read for…

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