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B.A. Goodjohn

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Bunny Goodjohn, English professor and Director of the Writing Program at Randolph College in Lynchburg, is published in both poetry and prose. Born in London, Goodjohn took USA citizenship after graduating from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. Her work has appeared in a number of literary journals including Connecticut Review, Zone 3, The Texas Review, and The Cortland Review and has won several poetry prizes including The Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry in 2011 and The Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry in 2014. Her poetry collection Bone Song was published by Briery Creek Press in 2015. She is also the author of two novels: Sticklebacks and Snow Globes (Permanent Press 2007) and The Beginning Things (Undergro ...more

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B.A. Goodjohn I'm not sure it exists...for me, at least. Most writing is just a case of sitting down and doing it...whether I want to or not. If I write crap today,…moreI'm not sure it exists...for me, at least. Most writing is just a case of sitting down and doing it...whether I want to or not. If I write crap today, I can be pretty sure that when I read it tomorrow or next week, there will be a jumping off point there somewhere.

I do believe that we hit fallow times. But those times are not necessarily a bad thing. In the same way that setting a field fallow improves the soil and makes it possible for future crops to do well, experiencing a creative "fallowness" can achieve the same thing. I can't remember who said this (please, someone remind me)L "How can we sit down to write when we have not stood up to live." If you're wedded to the phrase "Writer's Block" then think of it as an opportunity to "stand up and live."(less)
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Sticklebacks and Snow Globes

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I've moved! From May 23rd, my new online home is here:
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