Mud Season Review – Julie Patterson

An Honest Reckoning

I remember when I started drafting, I was both terrified and excited about where it might lead, what the writing of it might dredge up—emotions, new self-understandings. As writers we know that’s a ‘good place’ to be… – Bill MarshRead the full interview

Writing My Emotional Truth

The gift of nonfiction is the ability to share human experience through story. I find that when I’m most uncomfortable writing my emotional truth, the work has the biggest reaction with readers. – Lauren MauldinRead the full interview

There’s Always More to the Story

“The pen is not so different from the camera.” Writers and photographers both have the ability to show the world what things look like from their perspectives. We have a lot of power to take what we see and shape it to evoke certain feelings or responses. – Alexia KemerlingRead the full interview

Hope in the Softening Fields

From my interview with MUD SEASON REVIEW contributor Chila Woychik: “In the end, we have to feel responsible for our own writing growth, and not fall into “echo chamber” mode, where one school or style may be popular, a handful of authors may appear to dominate a certain writing scene or genre, so we run to those, and then a while later, run to something else that is said to be all the rave.”

Focusing on the “Real” of Life

Oh, I wish I’d been born a poet! It does help me remember to go way down, past the scene, past the sentence, down to the word. – Melissa Goodnight Read the full interview