by Jen Lue
“I’m interested in the idea of who gets to be well and whose way of existing and perceiving gets to be labeled as ‘well’ . . . As a woman of color you grow up experiencing things at the same that you’re being told, ‘This isn’t happening to you.'” Continue reading
by Pamela Holmes
I would develop a psychological picture of a woman who could be this brave and determined. I would create a portrait of a marriage that would sustain and support her obsession. I would answer the question for myself. Continue reading
by Peter Krass
One of my writing students, well into her 80s, was surprised that her stories, set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of the 1950s, held our workshop fascinated. “You’d really want to read more of this?” she asked skeptically. We did. Continue reading
by Joan Schweighardt
“There is always hope. As long as we are breathing, we have hope.” Continue reading
by Mollie Weisenfeld
In this edition of FIVE IN BLOOM, we reintroduce you to some of our earliest spotlighted authors, whose works continue to inspire. Continue reading
by Maddie King
There’s something exciting and liberating about the middle-aged debut. It’s a bit monstrous, actually . . . a Bloom writer, as a person who’s both “new” and “late,” is a bit grotesque. But that’s exactly where ideas spring free. Continue reading
by Jenn Stroud Rossmann
Even Proust didn’t sequester himself in his cork-lined room to write until he had, well, lost time to the parties and travels he turned into fiction. Continue reading
