A trip to Wally World last night reminded me of a couple of recent pubs of my work that I haven’t shared. 🤓
The first was released just after Christmas: 
I was actually looking for a friend’s book and stumbled upon Chicken Soup for the Soul: Curvy and Confident in the rack. Sweet!
I am so pleased to have an essay in the book, co-written by the amazing Supermodel Emme and the brave Natasha Stoynoff. It gathers 101 stories of women who have found ways to gain confidence in a world that thinks it’s fine to judge women (people) by their size.
While my story in it highlights my desire to pass on body confidence to young women, that doesn’t mean I don’t still battle self consciousness somedays. I’m a work in progress. This book’s cloud of witnesses, however, shows me I’m in good company, and that it is possible to win the war.
And curves? If you can’t appreciate curves I don’t think we can be friends. #SorryNotSorry.
On to #2:
Those of you who know I’m a Woolfie will understand my excessive clapping right now: I am proud to announce that I had a flash fiction piece published in the premiere issue of Woolf Zine, a fine U.K. based publication and heart child of editor Sean Richardson of Nottingham Trent University.
You can read the issue here: https://issuu.com/woolfzine/docs/untitled-1
My piece was written in 2007 in response to reading To the Lighthouse for the first time, though it deals with several aspects of Woolf’s life. My story is a stream-of-consciousness experiment, a love letter, a bewailing of her suicide, and a commiseration with Woolf’s plight all in one.
I feared the piece was destined to live out its life on my computer, a personal reflection of sorts that I wasn’t sure anyone else would or could enjoy. I am glad to be proven wrong.
Lastly, this meme below is a little ditty I sent to my hubs earlier today. I thought I was pasting a link to my story here but put this instead. Since I can’t seem to easily delete it and in the interest of not allowing myself to be overly stuffy (fatal to creativity), let it stand. Maybe you’ll enjoy it as much as I do All Things Minion.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Congratulations, Drema. I just read your piece in the woolfzine and the rest of the publication. No wonder your piece is on the last page, for it is clearly hands down the best! I do hope you read that aloud as much as you want, for it appears to be so well suited as a performance piece. I am keeping it to read over and over and plan to use it in my fall class to demonstrate word choices and aesthetics in prose. What beauty you bring to the world.
Thank you,
Bonnie Omer Johnson
Dear Bonnie of the beautiful soul, Thank you so much for your kind words — you have me ready to cry over here! I am honored that you read my piece, and that you enjoyed it. Wow, I’m so touched to hear you intend to use it with your class. Many thanks and hugs to you.