writing

Way Outside Ordinary

by rosedeniz October 10, 2024 fiction

Tweet Love in the time of braces. by Rose Margaret Deniz The letters come in heavy, marbleized envelopes. Pink with a spray of turquoise inside a paisley loop. Peach and thick, heavy cream swirled like a Creamsicle. On the outside is my name, Abbie, written in Nat’s peaked scrawl. The paper smells like paint and […]

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Diary of a (Now) Agented #Writer: a timeline

by rosedeniz April 23, 2016 books

Tweet Summer, 1986: Age 8. Beat-up maroon rocking chair, yellow legal pad. Perfect handwriting giving way to messy scrawls. Perfectionist in me balks. Crumples up paper and throws onto the living room floor. Stories about horses and girl-run candy shops never see the light of day. Spring, 1990. Spelling bee runner-up. Loses to ‘sciscors’. I mean, […]

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Undiscovered Voices Longlist

by rosedeniz December 21, 2013 art

An excerpt of my novel TRACKED has been longlisted for the Undiscovered Voices 2014 contest.

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Humming and hermits and big washes of color

by rosedeniz December 21, 2012 creativity

For the first time in my life, I show up late to things, dawdle when I am supposed to run out the door, and let people do stuff for me – you know, like help.

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