Leaving Neverland, by Samantha Watson
It’s not that Neverland is so great. It’s just that it holds such a sense of possibility.
Read Moreby greenfirewriterseditor | May 18, 2018 | Fired Up! Essays, Fired Up! Non-Fiction, Fired Up! Writing | 0
It’s not that Neverland is so great. It’s just that it holds such a sense of possibility.
Read Moreby greenfirewriterseditor | Mar 3, 2018 | Fired Up! Poetry, Fired Up! Writing | 0
It’s happening now
girls are being told they’re stupid, worthless, ugly sluts
women are being shouted at and stalked and beaten
and killed in a red fury of self-righteousness by vicious men with guns
Read Moreby Jennifer Browdy | Jan 26, 2018 | Fired Up! Essays, Fired Up! Writing | 0
I fear that what may doom us in the end is the loss of our capacity for creative daydreaming.
Read Moreby Jennifer Browdy | Jan 26, 2018 | Fired Up! Essays, Fired Up! Writing, From the Editors | 0
I am sitting here recovering from the worst flu I have ever had and I wonder if my immune system...
Read Moreby Jennifer Browdy | Jan 16, 2018 | Fired Up! Art & Photography, Fired Up! Writing | 0
A new series of paintings, “Opposite Colors,” exposes an Argentina divided by the hatred generated by the forces of neoliberalism.
Read Moreby Jennifer Browdy | Jan 16, 2018 | Fired Up! Poetry, Fired Up! Writing | 0
by Jennifer Browdy | Jan 16, 2018 | Fired Up! Poetry, Fired Up! Writing | 0
Joy is not the absence of pain
but the willingness to sing anyway.
by Jennifer Browdy | Jan 16, 2018 | Fired Up! Essays, Fired Up! Writing | 0
I type because the words are like water, washing me, seeping into my parched tissues, sprouting more words and sentences and paragraphs. And suddenly I am breathing again, my heart a soothed beast, warm and fuzzy and purring.
Read Moreby greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 18, 2017 | Featured, Fired Up! Writing, From the Editors | 0
At Fired Up! we want to know: What do you care about? What makes your heart sing or your blood boil?
Read Moreby greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 16, 2017 | Fired Up! Essays, Fired Up! Writing | 0
“I’ve been fascinated for decades by the question of how we develop our political opinions, and how we transmit what we’ve learned and what we believe to the generations that follow us. The older I get, the less clear it becomes.”
Read Moreby greenfirewriterseditor | Nov 16, 2017 | Fired Up! Poetry, Fired Up! Writing | 0
…in the winter,
Miles and others
learned
the cold, sere, ice-crusted shore
is too cold to walk on
Read Moreby firedup | Sep 24, 2017 | Fired Up! Events, Uncategorized | 1
We are too! Come join Fired Up! editors Jana Laiz and Jennifer Browdy for a rousing writing workshop dedicated to bringing out your strongest, most passionate voice. Write in any genre, about the people, places or issues you...
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