Yesterday, an icon became ashes and dust. Big Tex, the gigantic cowboy who loomed over sixty Texas State Fairs, burned to the ground on Friday morning. This isn’t about writing or teaching, but it is about Texas, where I grew up and where a lot of my writing still gets set. And the fiery deathContinue reading “The fiery death of Big Tex”
Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown
A Writer’s Notebook: haiku at moonrise
A few weeks ago, I attended the O-Tsukimi moonviewing festival at the Portland Japanese Garden. Among the various activities at the festival, the organizers had laid out small handmade notebooks and pens for us to write haiku about the moon. These are my haiku. Weathered paper moon floats, a child’s folded boat — unsinkable light.Continue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: haiku at moonrise”
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A conversation between me and EJ Runyon
Originally posted on E.J. Runyon's Author Blog:
I read an online story by my guest, Samuel Snoek-Brown recently. And it touched me so much, I re-blogged it on my site here. Here’s a link to it: Lightning My Pilot. I really thought so highly of it that, as a ramp up to…
A Writer’s Notebook: notes from a reading (the results so far)
So, as I promised last week, I’m attempting a draft of something based on notes I took at a literary reading here in PDX last week. And, thanks to a conversation in the comments with EJ Runyon, I decided to try the story about rearranging furniture. She opened the door but it stopped on itsContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: notes from a reading (the results so far)”
New publication
Fiction Southeastis a cool literary magazine. They publish people like Robert Olen Butler, Joyce Carol Oates, CL Bledsoe. And now, me. My story “Consuela Throws Her TV Away” is in the fall 2012 issue, folks! Some of you might recognize the title: it originally appeared in the excellent Orchid: A Literary Review. But, sadly, OrchidContinue reading “New publication”
An interview with me at the UW-Platteville creative writing blog
Yesterday, Ryan Werner name-dropped me in his interview with the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s creative writing blog. So they contacted me, and today, my interview is online, too. Among the things we talk about: writers in Wisconsin, dreams, snow and Dairy Days and strawberry shortcake in Wisconsin, Sarah Rose Etter and Jac Jemc, fall on theContinue reading “An interview with me at the UW-Platteville creative writing blog”
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“Shake Away” these digital days
A lot of people have asked about digital versions of Ryan Werner’s killer collection of flash fiction, Shake Away These Constant Days. And the great and terrible Jersey Devil has heard your prayers: BEHOLD! We have your book on Kindle: http://amzn.com/B009N3GXLK We have your book on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/243751 We have your digital copy for justContinue reading ““Shake Away” these digital days”
A Writer’s Notebook: notes from a reading
When I go to literary readings, I always take my notebook. Before I got my iPod, I took my notebook everywhere, but now that I can rely on the much slimmer iPod for emergency idea-jotting, I sometimes leave the thicker notebook at home. But at readings? I have to have paper and pencil to scribbleContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: notes from a reading”
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