Category Archives: Fiction

“Describe a barn…”

Posted on September 5, 2017 by readersquest

I always find the criticism of war literature on friend and colleague Peter Molin’s blog Time Now thought-provoking, and one of his posts this week challenged me to some personal reflection. A subsequent e-mail exchange provoked me into writing about … Continue reading →

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Writing Life – Call for Submissions, Upcoming Deadline

Posted on October 20, 2015 by readersquest

The response to our call for submissions to the Veterans Writing Project’s literary journal O-Dark-Thirty for a special themed issue, writing by women veterans, has been gratifying. We’ve received four or five times the usual number of submissions for a quarterly issue, and … Continue reading →

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War, Leadership, and Love: The Contemporary Romance Novels of Army Officer Jessica Scott

Posted on September 4, 2015 by readersquest

Summer of 1976. I’m eleven years old, and I’ve just finished sixth grade. I’ve read everything that the librarian in charge of the little one-room public library in a small town in West Virginia thinks is suitable for a good … Continue reading →

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Writing Life: I Want to Smack Sam Sacks

Posted on August 26, 2015 by readersquest

This post is mostly not about the writing of women veterans; please forgive the digression. In 2005, a couple of weeks into my first semester of the Writing Program at the Johns Hopkins University, my mother-in-law asked to read some of my … Continue reading →

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Call for Submissions

Posted on April 21, 2015 by readersquest

O-Dark-Thirty, the literary journal of The Veterans Writing Project, is pleased to call for submissions from women veterans who write for an upcoming (February 2016) themed issue of O-Dark-Thirty/The Review: Women Veterans’ Writing. Guidelines: The editors will consider short stories (up to 5,000 … Continue reading →

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