Military Spouse Book Review
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Book reviews, essays, & more, by and for literary-minded military spouses and fellow travelers. We appreciate empathy, broad minds, good humor, great books.
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Including must-read essay by military spouse Erin Carpenter: @mundanitynoodle @SiobhanMFallon
** JANUARY 2021 @WrathBT is up! ** Stellar lineup: NEW Fiction (!) from @MattGallagher0 , "The Biggest Little City" Nonfiction: @mundanitynoodle, "A Trauma-Informed Approach to Date Night" Poetry from Scott Janssen and Lauren Davis wrath-bearingtree.com/2021/01/new-fi…
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New Fiction from Matt Gallagher: "The Biggest Little City" - Wrath-Bearing Tree
New, original fiction set in Reno, NV, from Matt Gallagher, author of the memoir Kaboom! and the novels Youngblood and Empire City.
Have you read our December 2020 issue yet? You've got ten days and then it DISAPPEARS FOREVER. Kidding. But you do have 10 days to leave a comment on @WrathBT & be automatically entered to win @Brian_Castner 's terrific DISAPPOINTMENT RIVER. Yes! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543135/d…
Here's a treat! Author @KateySchultz drops by the @WrathBT You Tube channel to read some really lovely poetry for your Winter Solstice. Mary Oliver, Holly Wren Spaulding, and more! youtube.com/watch?v=Nl39si…
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Contributor Reading: Katey Schultz Reads Winter Poetry
Brilliant essay on art-making & perseverance in the face of motherhood, time constraints, social unrest & more, from Abena Ntoso in the December @WrathBT : wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/12/new-no…
* DECEMBER @WrathBT IS UP! * POETRY: Mack Freeman, Sheila Bonenberger, Nestor Walters. NONFICTION: Abena Ntoso, "River of My Dreams." Profile of poet @FlameSuzy. FICTION: @Brian_Castner, "The Troll." Come Read! wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/12/new-fi…
It's Giving Tuesday! And while @WrathBT won't be a nonprofit til next year, here are some of our great friends from the literary/war lit community if you want to help them keep making & publishing great art! (thread)
Here are @WrathBT 's nominations for the 2020 Pushcart Prize (a thread). With the quality of contributions this year, it was no easy feat to choose only six pieces to nominate. We're very proud of these authors & their work.
This #VeteransDay read stories from vets. I wrote an homage 2 Girl as an assignment from @TaraCampbellCom (from @barrelhouse funky flash workshop -highly recommend btw). Thanx 2 @WrathBT 4 this acceptance & their confidence in me 2 publish my story in Nov. wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/11/soldie…
One thing I don't say enough is how grateful I am to America's veterans. For the past five years, I've been studying veteran-authors. The kindness, diversity, courage, and imagination I have witnessed in this community has changed the way I see my country. #HappyVeteransDay
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** JANUARY 2021 @WrathBT is up! ** Stellar lineup: NEW Fiction (!) from @MattGallagher0 , "The Biggest Little City" Nonfiction: @mundanitynoodle, "A Trauma-Informed Approach to Date Night" Poetry from Scott Janssen and Lauren Davis wrath-bearingtree.com/2021/01/new-fi…
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New Fiction from Matt Gallagher: "The Biggest Little City" - Wrath-Bearing Tree
New, original fiction set in Reno, NV, from Matt Gallagher, author of the memoir Kaboom! and the novels Youngblood and Empire City.
* NOVEMBER 2020 @WrathBT IS UP! * * FICTION: Francisco Martinezcuello, "Soldier" * NONFICTION: Tara Coughlin, "Splintering Effect" Artist Profile: Vince Gabriel Essay: Michael Carson * POETRY: Ben Weakley; Nazli Karabiyikoglu wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/11/soldie…
Hooray, @amalieflynn !! 😊
Nominated for @SundressPub "Best of the Net" 2020 -- @amalieflynn 's haunting poem "Celebrate," about the unethical, politically-motivated pardon of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher. "Don’t touch him. Because he’s mine. Before driving his knife deep and deep." wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/01/new-po…
MERCI WBT!!!! It was a pleasure to write this article with @johnnytyrrell and an honor to be nominated @WrathBT
Continuing with our @SundressPub nominations: @orthveillon and John Tyrrell, nominated in Nonfiction for their essay "Reading Camus' 'The Plague' in May 2020: A Dispatch from Lyon, France." Congratulations! wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/05/readin…
** OCTOBER @WrathBT IS UP! ** POETRY: George Kramer and Westley Smith NONFICTION: Nathan Webster and Kevin Honold on collective memory, Confederate-named bases, more FICTION: Matt Cricchio, "War all the Time" PROFILE: Jason Moon's "Warrior Songs" wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/10/new-fi…
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New Fiction from Matthew Cricchio: "War All the Time" - Wrath-Bearing Tree
A medically discharged Marine tried to find his mojo again through a series of interactions with callgirls -- some more successful than others.
"What is it about the American character that allows the long con of our politics to go on and on?" Excellent essay for election season: Michael Carson on Ben Fountain's "Beautiful Country Burn Again" & the unsustainable American political fantasy: wrath-bearingtree.com/2019/08/turn-o…
Folk-punk singer-songwriter Emily Yates on women at war, post-traumatic stress, working for @ImDavidAbrams in Iraq, learning to play the ukelele, and the international "Try Not to be a Dick" Movement, in your new September @WrathBT : wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/09/artist…
Awesome!! Congrats, @FOB_Haiku !
As featured in @THR : "True War Stories" Comic Anthology, which features an adaptation of a short story by multiple-time @WrathBT contributor @FOB_Haiku ! Congratulations from all of us, Randy! His poetry, here: wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/07/new-po…
Disrupting the comfortable. Thanks for this, @dagray08 . Reviewed here also by @LisaSticePoet in the @BookSpouse Military Spouse Book Review, for anyone who wants to read more. militaryspousebookreview.com/2018/06/21/poe…
As featured in @THR : "True War Stories" Comic Anthology, which features an adaptation of a short story by multiple-time @WrathBT contributor @FOB_Haiku ! Congratulations from all of us, Randy! His poetry, here: wrath-bearingtree.com/2020/07/new-po…
Some flash fiction (or at least very short fiction!) I wrote a while back, and still like. This whole folio is terrific, with contributors like Ben Busch, Roxana Robinson, Rachael Janel, Julian Zabalbeascoa, & more.
"You are not as old as some, but you are older than many." On today's WWII anniversary, @WrathBT co-editor @Andria816 in @WLAJournal "Peace" Folio: "Legacy," about regret and war crime, and Leo Szilard & his longtime partner, Trude. wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/Fol…
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