Janet Burroway
@janetburroway
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Writer: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's, plays, lyrics
Chicago and Lake Geneva
Joined February 2010
RT @PearsonNorthAm: The @pearson Summer Book Club is back! Join us on July 16, 2024, at 3:00 PM ET for a lively discussion of "Severance" b…
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@xchatty Thanks, Simon--No, I wrote it all at once, and felt strongly about making clear that I was not coming down on woke-ism but censorship of any sort. What I did do at the request of my editor was cut out a lot of autobiographical bits, or jokes, or radical-left opinions.
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RT @JeffreyASnyder: *You can’t simultaneously diversify and sanitize.* Really enjoyed reading this essay in @ChronicleReview by @janetburro…
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@aliaelkattan Wow, I needed that. Just as I needed to know that calico came from Calcutta and, paisley from a town of that name in southwest Scotland. If you think I'm sarcastic, you don't know me.
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@casual_will_ This is what happens when you obliterate the liberal arts, nationwide. It will get worse. It will get worse.
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@rebeccamakkai My latest protagonist takes up exactly this question: is a coincidence a coincidence if you don't know about it? It's shortly followed by a coincidence neither she nor her friend know about; only the reader does.
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RT @UChicagoPress: We're having a sale! From July 31 to August 7, enjoy 75% off all e-books from the University of Chicago Press and select…
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Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) is featured today on @eBookDaily !
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RT @BraeburnPrimary: After reading the story ‘The Giant Jam sandwich’ @janetburroway, team 🦁 + 🐯wanted to make their own jam sandwiches a…
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@SGJ72 This teacher doesn't know what you're talking about. You were the boy pulling the story from the crevice, again and again, tireless.
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"Straight Home" is up on the Narrative Magazine site today! Honored to be a first-prize winner in this best of all online literary sources.
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RT @doylejacq: Love this award-winning flash by @janetburroway in @CleaverMagazine. (I'm already a big fan of Janet Burroway's writing. I l…
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RT @andrew_belfry: “Dialogue is action when it contains the possibility of change,” according to @janetburroway. Can humorous dialogue crea…
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