“If You Give a Story Something, It Gives It Back:” A Conversation with Morgan Talty
A writer isn’t in control of what’s on the page, the story is. But if you give a story something, it gives it back.
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J Brooke
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J Brooke (They/e) won Columbia Journal’s 2020 Special Issue Nonfiction Award for their autobiographical essay, “HYBRID”. Their work appears in Electric Lit, The Normal School, Bangalore Review, The Sun Magazine, Beyond Queer Words, The Fiddlehead, and others. Brooke was Nonfiction Editor of the Stonecoast Review while receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. Brooke is 2023 guest faculty at Stonecoast MFA and resides with their spouse Beatrice on land stolen from the Hammonasset People.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by J Brooke
I drew a house / I drew a house with a tire swing / I drew a house with a tire swing and deep green grass /
I drew a house with a tire swing and deep green grass and a little pond