#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 website | https://www.bennerdixon.com |
| AKA | @[email protected] |
| Links | https://bio.site/mcbdixon |
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
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/
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.
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
"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/
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
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
C. L. Polk
Reckoning
Catherine Rockwood
Anna Orridge