M.C. Benner Dixon

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#Author, #editor, #teacher, and aspiring photosynthesizer. #Fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry: often but not always with a #speculative bent. Winner of the 2022 Orison Fiction Prize. She/her

Profile pic: a small figure in a maroon sweatshirt and jeans standing on a rock ledge, arms spread wide. Cover photo: a blue sky with a sun and scattered clouds.

Author/editor websitehttps://www.bennerdixon.com
AKA@[email protected]
Linkshttps://bio.site/mcbdixon
I am attending one of my favorite conferences this weekend. Flights of Foundry is a fully virtual conference for speculative creators (writers, artists, etc.) and fans. This year, I'm presenting on several panels and even...giving a reading!! I'm pretty excited about this! If you're attending, I'll see you on the Discord. #Flights2023

My book! It is available for preorder! If you’re a writer or a creative person at all, this book is for you. There are writing prompts, yes, but the essays are earnest and tender reflections on what it is to be an artist in this world. https://www.press.umich.edu/12666574/millions_of_suns?fbclid=IwAR2KT8v7CbTyYIfbhpC-nEcGRs0WFc8rOeyW-0SO2-F1cfp0ktqtPqzGy8w

#debut #book #preorder #essays #WritingPrompts #creativeWriting

Did I just start working on a (maybe) #flash #fiction story about a weremouse? Did I? I will leave that a mystery.

Sometimes I encounter writers talking about their early work as cringe or something to ba ashamed of, while laughing about it

And after this many Accelerated Resolution Therapy sessions where I have encountered a profoundly hurt young version of myself in the wreckage of a past trauma, please please please love what younger you wrote. It’s the seed you grew from. Expecting it to be professional caliber work *hurts* you.

Be gentle to the prologue of your artistic life, friends. It’s your magic.

Hey there, #teachers: I am conducting a #survey about #virtual #teaching and #learning. If you have 15 minutes or so, would you mind filling out this anonymous survey for me?

https://forms.gle/BQMRkcsm2HACEgrP9

I will be presenting results, in part, on a panel at the upcoming Flights of Foundry conference, but I am also asking in the interest of improving programming for Write Pittsburgh: https://www.writepittsburgh.com/

Asynchronous and Online Teaching

Data collected in this survey will analyzed by Christine Benner Dixon, PhD, and presented in a conference panel on virtual teaching and may be used for the development of Write Pittsburgh programs. Written responses may be quoted anonymously as part of a conference panel on virtual teaching and/or for the development of Write Pittsburgh programs.

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This Sunday is the Our Beautiful Reward virtual release party! All week we're posting mini-interviews with some of the contributors. Today it's @mchristinebd: https://reckoning.press/our-beautiful-reward-mini-interviews-m-c-benner-dixon/
Our Beautiful Reward Mini-Interviews: M. C. Benner-Dixon | Reckoning

To celebrate the official print release of Our Beautiful Reward on March 16th (virtual release party Sunday the 19th, you're invited!), I asked some of the contributors a few of the questions foremost on my mind. It's been too long since we've run many interviews here, and I've missed it; getting to know writers and

Reckoning | creative writing on environmental justice

"The stories of our bodies simply cannot fit into a few, easy “this is how it is” narratives. By stepping outside of accepted reality, speculative writing expands the palette for talking about this issue—and that allows for both specificity and variety. Having a body that is the subject of legislative, religious, and social control feels like this, and this, and this, and this..."

A mini-interview with @mchristinebd today at @ReckoningMag.

https://reckoning.press/our-beautiful-reward-mini-interviews-m-c-benner-dixon/

#shortstories #autonomy #sff

Our Beautiful Reward Mini-Interviews: M. C. Benner-Dixon | Reckoning

To celebrate the official print release of Our Beautiful Reward on March 16th (virtual release party Sunday the 19th, you're invited!), I asked some of the contributors a few of the questions foremost on my mind. It's been too long since we've run many interviews here, and I've missed it; getting to know writers and

Reckoning | creative writing on environmental justice
Our culture doesn’t like to look very closely at grief. It’s pushed aside, embarrassing and inconvenient. This #grief #writing #workshop invites you to engage and honor sorrow through writing. We need more places like this. http://WPghSorrowing.eventbrite.com
Tending the Sorrowing Heart: A Grief Writing Workshop

This four-week workshop for adult writers is an invitation to honor and work through grief in writing.

Eventbrite

I knew about the fires to come, friends,
and floods. I knew I’d see so many ends
before my own. But still - the shock of such
destruction. Reality plucked from charts
and pages of scientific journals and papers,
draped over my world, close enough to touch.
My heart

#SmallPoem #ClimateCrisis

People will, on occasion, shorten my name to "Chris" with no invitation to do so. Without fail, these people are over the age of 60. It is like some kind of secret #Boomer code.