I've been creatively starved lately and I was replenished (and disturbed) by reading The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by Edward White...

In marketing, a user persona (also called customer persona) is a semi-fictional person that is the ideal customer for a product or...

Alex Gallo-Brown is a poet, writer, and union organizer. His dedication to the labor movement is much needed leadership during our...

I'm enrolled in the Certificate in Storytelling & Content Strategy program at the University of Washington, and my fellow classmates and...

We all need time for our art. The author Michael Cunningham writes in the morning, “before the duties of the day stamp their urgency over...

Kristen Millares Young is a hell of a strong force. Her debut fiction novel Subduction (Red Hen Press) was celebrated by The Paris Review...

As a hyper-organized project manager, I’m always calculating my efficiency. So I was looking around my home office the other day to see...

An exceptional year has passed, to say the least, and good riddance, 2020! The hardest part of saying goodbye to a seriously f***ed up...

Juan Carlos Reyes is one dope dad. He’s a hell of a writer and a literary arts advocate. He’s a board member at Seattle City of...

Fed up with Facebook, I deleted my account months ago. And I find myself spending less time on my remaining social media accounts,...

For my day job, I teach business communication courses and my students recently learned about value proposition, a term to describe the...

Classically trained tenor Jeremy Dutcher (Tobique First Nation) wowed my soul last year with his debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa....

What a splendid and magical evening celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day with four fantastic storytellers, including Laura Da, Sasha...

Whether you’re a new hot mess or a creative pro, every artist* needs to write a biography (or update older bios). There are suggested...

I randomly stumbled on the article Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Music for a Future That Never Came and found myself stunted by the...

As a boy, I often fantasized about running away to explore the mountains surrounding Phoenix, Arizona, where I grew up at. During recess...

October is a busy month for readings I’m curating. In addition to Fight For Our Lives: Worker Rights! on Tuesday, Oct 13, I’m hosting a...

What a blast learning alongside the talented students who attended The (Indigenous) Writer's Toolkit: How to Launch Your Craft workshop I...

The destiny of the introverted artist is a mystery. And why is that? Because we can’t see you! Believe me because I’m introverted through...

An artist without a website is like a farmer without a market. Farmers need to hustle their product, and so do you. Regardless of your...

I did it! I got through Pitchfork’s 50 Best Ambient Albums list. As mentioned in a previous post, my goal was to listen to an album every...

Do you need to beef up your grant, fellowship, or residency application? Bulk up with data. With grant applications, for example, I...

According to my calculations, it’s day 3,359,094 into the Pandemic. Yet when possible, we push forward and create art, music, prose,...

Applying for residencies, grants, and fellowships is a tedious process, which is why I print and archive every application I submit. Why?...