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I Came, I Sewed, I Pillaged: Winning Ocracoke’s Pirate Costume Contest

November 9, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Apparently, I pirate better than people half my age: Well, I don't mean to brag or anything, but guess who won Most Authentic Adult Female Costume at the Blackbeard's Pirate Jamboree on Ocracoke … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Art & Crafting, The Outer Banks Tagged With: ocracoke pirate jamboree, pirate costumes, pirate jamboree

What, Why, How: Andrew Collard

November 6, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I write poetry! My first book of poems, Sprawl, won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was recently published by Ohio University Press. Sprawl is about life in the metropolis of southeast … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How: Inside Writing Tagged With: poetry

Love at 350° A delicious romance-comedy

October 30, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Welcome fellow Detroit author, Lisa Peers, to my blog: Lisa Peers and I met many years ago at a Detroit Working Writers Conference. I remember her sitting at the table in the conference room with … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Books and Reviews Tagged With: Fiction, LGBTQ, Publishing, romance

What, Why, How: Sarah Carson

October 23, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What:  This neighborhood, our boulevards, neighbor boys’ whose long legs count cement stoops, whose daddies warm motorcycles on the driveway, whose mommas can’t leave their card tables, … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How: Inside Writing Tagged With: poetry

Ch-ch-changes

October 16, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

How you doing? No, how are you really doing, post pandemic? We've come a long way since 2019, with so much progress in vaccines and treatment, for those of us who believe in science, anyway. A few … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Notes on Life Tagged With: covid, pandemic, writing

What, Why, How: Craig Terlson

October 9, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I’ve always been a maker of things; I actually prefer that moniker to the somewhat loaded term “artist.” The first things I made were illustrations. I was lucky enough to draw and paint for … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How: Inside Writing Tagged With: crime fiction, noir fiction, novels, short stories

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Author, poet, artist, cynical optimist, corgi aficionado, crafter & klutz with just enough ADHD to keep it spinning. More here.

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Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line