It’s here. The big day. My memoir, the one I spent 15 years struggling over, launches today from Raised Voice Press. I’m feeling very exposed, very vulnerable. This is not at all similar to when Dolls Behaving Badly launched from Hachette Book Group. That was a novel, and while some of it was based on… Read More Malnourished launches today
I love getting packages in the mail, don’t you? I love the mystery of not knowing what’s inside, and even if I know what’s inside, I still love the opening part. Maybe it reminds me of Christmas and that wonder, that thrill. Whatever the case, a few weeks ago, I received a small package in… Read More Work included in The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction anthology
Please excuse the jumbled nature of this review: I was up until 6 a.m. last night, finishing Eternity Began Tomorrow. I literally could not stop reading. And it wasn’t just the story, which is intriguing, fast-paced and unpredictable (most of the time—I did guess at the ending). It’s that the writing is so smooth… Read More Review: Eternity Began Tomorrow, by Kevin Brennan
Big news: My new book Malnourished: A Memoir of Sisterhood and Hunger, now has a permanent cover. And I love it. I especially love the vast expanse of sky, which (at least to me) symbolizes death and healing, hope and redemption, all main themes throughout the book. Anyway, here it is: Here’s a brief description: In Malnourished, Cinthia… Read More Cover reveal, and yippee!, “Malnourished” is ready for pre-orders
It’s summer in Alaska and we’ve been blessed with freakishly high temperatures, sunny skies and daylight stretching out past midnight. It’s intoxicating and giddy. It’s difficult to stay indoors. It’s so damned awesome. Except (there’s always an except, isn’t there?) I haven’t been able to do the things I love the most, namely running and… Read More High summer, and book news
Earlier this year, when I was still injured and couldn’t run, swim, hike or even walk much, I submitted a huge amount of work to various small presses, literary magazines and contests. I did this late at night, my defenses subdued by vast amounts of chocolate. And while I’ve been receiving a shitload of rejection… Read More New work up at Sport Literate and Rat’s Ass Review
A few months ago, I submitted an essay to the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards Contest from the YMCA here in Tucson. I did this while sitting on the floor of the exercise room, my laptop beside me, a guy on the elliptical machine spraying sweat over my shoulders (I could say that his… Read More Tucson Festival of Books award-winning essay, and Gates Pass
I tried my hand at a 50-word story and soon learned that it isn’t easy to write a full story in exactly 50 words. The original attempt was 140 words. I sliced it down to 100, which wasn’t that difficult. Cutting it to 50, however, was where I really struggled. My aim was to capture a… Read More New work up at 50-word stories
It’s been a while, no? I flew down to Tucson in October and existed for almost three months without internet access, except when at the library. It was glorious and isolating, both at the same time. I got a lot of writing done, and read a lot, and watched DVDs on the small TV screen… Read More Pushcart Prize nomination, and other news
First things first: My flash creative nonfiction piece A Fancy Department Store in Cleveland, 1970 is up at the The Disappointed Housewife. Here’s the beginning: A Fancy Department Store in Cleveland, 1970 We knew we didn’t belong, my sisters and me. We knew by the way the saleslady tightened her mouth, the edges of her lipstick… Read More Essay up at The Disappointed Housewife, and a busy week
Cinthia Ritchie 