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Allison K Williams is a writer, editor and podcaster. Her work has been seen in Brevity, Kenyon Review Online, Smokelong Quarterly, Story Club, Prairie Schooner’s blog, The Drum, the Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. Her radio stories have aired on NPR and CBC-Canada. She serves as Social Media Editor and hosts a literary podcast for Brevity, and lives in Dubai.

I’m Ready for My Close-Up: Using the metaphor of cinema to focus our writing lenses

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I spent the formative years of my childhood with a Super 8 movie camera and, later in high school, in the clunky medium of  ¾ inch video, creating DIY claymation monster movies and MTV-inspired mini-dramas

I never became the George Lucas / Steven Spielberg of my dreams. College turned me into a written tale-spinner, and grad school turned me into a poet. (I did become, briefl

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“Rejection sucks. It sucks every time, whether it's a big suck or a little suck. But it's part of the process. It's part of being a writer. It's a badge that says 'I'm serious about this, and I'm sending out my work.”
Allison K. Williams, Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better

“What nobody tells you is that spending an entire day being paid to do something you love is sometimes a lot less fun than spending an entire day doing something you love for free.”
Allison K. Williams, Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better

“Writers are seldom original. But we can always be rare.”
Allison K. Williams, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book

“Rejection sucks. It sucks every time, whether it's a big suck or a little suck. But it's part of the process. It's part of being a writer. It's a badge that says 'I'm serious about this, and I'm sending out my work.”
Allison K. Williams, Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better

“What nobody tells you is that spending an entire day being paid to do something you love is sometimes a lot less fun than spending an entire day doing something you love for free.”
Allison K. Williams, Get Published in Literary Magazines: The Indispensable Guide to Preparing, Submitting and Writing Better

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