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Robert Vaughan's writing can be found in over 650 online and print journals and he's an ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He was twice a finalist for the Gertrude Stein Award for Fiction (2013, 2014). His piece, "A Box," was selected for Best Small Fictions 2016 (Queen's Ferry Press). And, "Six Glimpses of the Uncouth" was selected for Best Small Fictions 2019. He has taught over a dozen writing retreats at Synergia Ranch, N.M., Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Ojai Retreat Center, CA., Cedar Valley, WI, The Clearing, and Devonfield Inn, MA. His sixth book is ASKEW (Cowboy Jamboree, 2022). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Bending Genres Journal. He offers online monthly weekend workshops and has an ongoing roundtable. And check out our two Bending Genre ...more

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	Addicts & Basements 4.59 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rift by Kathy Fish (Goodreads Author), Robert Vaughan (Goodreads Author) 4.53 avg rating — 73 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Askew 4.65 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Microtones 4.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Much: Tales of Excess by Chuck Howe (Goodreads Author), Meg Tuite (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michael Gillan Maxwell (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Flash Fiction Fridays 4.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bending Genres Anthology by Robert Vaughan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michelle Ross (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Howie Good (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diptychs + Triptychs + Lipsticks + Dipshits by Robert Vaughan (2013-12-04) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bending Genres weekend workshops

We had a great time in Len Kuntz’s weekend workshop, Brave Ink: Mining Our Fears to Create Writing that Slays your Reader on October 17- 19.

Up next, we have Nina Schuyler, author of three books, who will take us through Writing the More-than-Humans!!! This will be December 12- 14, and Nina is an astute and memorable teacher, and being! More here: https://bendinggenres.com/writing-groups/

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“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
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“I am living. I remember you.”
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“Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.”
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“Poetry is telling something to someone.”
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