This week our guest is Deborah Paredez, co-founder of CantoMundo, and author of Year of the Dog, a book of poetry. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and

• Submitting more, and submitting after rejection
• Reckoning with silence
• And more

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This Week’s Writing Prompt

Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.

This week’s writing prompt is: Make a list of language, stories, figures, or images that we see as so completely mundane that we don’t even notice them. Then write what you know and notice about that familiar piece of language. Then write a story to pull it from its familiarity to something more strange or wondrous or meaningful. 

Explore Womxn Authors

In this episode, the author recommended these womxn writers:

• Aracelis Girmay, author of Black Maria
• Lucille Clifton, author of Blessing the Boats

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