Sometimes, when I’m feeling anxious or in need of a distraction, I search for a quick writing prompt […]
Autumn is not far away. I can feel a slight change in temperature, leaves are beginning to fall […]
Here’s a link to the latest post on my Goodreads blog… If you follow my website, Amy Elizabeth Burns, […]
Goodreads Book Giveaway Leaving is My Colour by Amy Burns Giveaway ends August 31, 2017. See the giveaway […]
This Alabama humidity is about to get on my last nerve. It didn’t get near dark enough yesterday […]
7 Southern dishes that probably shouldn’t be food I’ve got a new list on It’s a Southern Thing […]
Birmingham Man Released from Hospital After Drinking Unsweet Tea at Southside Restaurant A Birmingham man was released from […]
Before I get too far into this, let me state for the record: I do not have children, […]
Acquainted with the Night
Amy Burns, Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost from Amy Burns on Vimeo.
The three of us sat around the kitchen table doing our best to ignore each other when Eliot […]
Georgie and the Watermelon
Not even Georgie the Springer Spaniel can resist a cold slice of watermelon on a hot Alabama day. […]
A Review by Rebecca Monks Honest and occasionally hilarious novel about a recovering drug addict ‘I first realized […]
Has anyone ever asked you if you like poetry? I’m curious because whenever someone asks me that question, […]
Me, Reading: Just Put My Hair Anywhere
I’ve been meaning to read a few pieces and put them here. So, here we go… Click this […]
Something happened to my hair yesterday. It wasn’t good. And, it happened on one of those days that […]
Thanks to Beth Castrodale at Small Press Picks for the following review of Leaving is My Colour. From […]
The first time I fell in love, I was taking a second swing at kindergarten. The Board of […]
Demented narrator Rachel’s a kind of dysfunctional debutante. The daughter of vast wealth, she’s got through four marriages, endless drugs, breakdowns, therapy and rehab, all in search of the one thing money can’t buy. This is the love of her childhood sweetheart Jack, who’s with someone else and not interested. The book’s a crazy mixed bag: sometimes dialogue, sometimes prose, moving back and forth in time and between degradation and glamour. Restless Rachel might wake up in the Four Seasons penthouse, or sprawled on the floor with someone else’s wet dog. Will she ever slow down and find happiness? Very funny, fizzing with one-liners and sparkling with a febrile wit. – Wendy Holden – The Daily Mail
Now, my writing doesn’t fall into the horror genre but those of you who know me will have a […]
My first novel was published 16 February. Here are a few of the reviews thus far. Demented narrator […]
Everything’s Gonna Be Fine
Just a few words and a video that I put together. I’ve been experimenting with such things. It’s […]
Plato’s Theory of Forms claims that the world which we perceive with our senses is merely a representation […]
vows (a poems which appears in the Brown Williams Journal, the work of many, in 2012-ish i […]
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. John Steinbeck
I keep a notebook with me much of the time. The notebook is for writing down ideas or […]
This magnificent beast is the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Sure, the photograph is really just an app’ed […]
If psychological thrillers are your thing and you haven’t read work by Australian author Helen Fitzgerald then get […]
I made chicken and dumplings for the first time today. Not sure how I feel about it. Was I […]
I visited the Hubert Richter Chapel in Cullman, Alabama a day or two ago. I’d like to share […]
I was at the doctor’s office today, waiting my turn after having graduated from outer perimeter to inner […]
St Enoch Square, Glasgow
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
I went to Galveston, Texas with my sister this weekend. We stayed at the Hotel Galvez which is […]
We survived to produce Mulberry Fork Review: Issue 2. I’m so proud. Clap. Clap. Special thanks to our […]
I keep a notebook with me much of the time. The notebook is for writing down ideas or […]
A flash fiction, probably, written by me and published by Ink, Sweat, and Tears: Remembrance of Things Past.
Clyde Street, Glasgow
A short story by me published by Cleaver: Hunger.
Today, a flash fiction (I suppose one might call it) written by me. Published by Smashed Cat Magazine: […]
I feel that discussing story writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are. Flannery O'Connor
Maybe a poem, written by me and published by Leaves of Ink: The Devil Knows How to Row.
Today… a very short something or other written by me and published by the lovely folks at Fiction […]
Another thing nearing a poem, written by me, published by Melancholy Hyperbole: Mushroomed.