Saturday, May 30, 2015

Robyn Cadwallader - On Writing

Work in Progress: The Latest from the Front Lines of Literature
The Geranium
Flannery O'Connor
Short Story
Our National Short Story Month celebrations continue with one of the first stories written by the unparalleled Flannery O'Connor. Appropriately, O'Connor will begin gracing Forever stamps on June 5th. "The Geranium" can be found in her recently reissued The Complete Stories .

Enter to win a complete set of Flannery O'Connor's newly reissued The Complete Stories, Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, Everything That Rises Must Converge, and Mystery and Manners here.

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Feeling Within Stone
Robyn Cadwallader
On Writing
The room was small, with smooth stone walls, two beautiful arched lattice windows, and furnished with a simple altar and candles. Behind me, the priest had closed the heavy wooden door, saying he would be back in about twenty minutes, after he had finished the church service. That's fine, I thought, not long to sit, and wait.

I was at the Church of St Margaret, King's Lynn, Norfolk, UK, on the search for anchorholds and the memories of anchoresses, the women who had chosen to be permanently sealed from the world.

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