by Carole Duff | Jul 17, 2017 | Local or Human Interest, Writing and Reading | 
The air conditioning in the Rotunda’s Multipurpose Room at the University of Virginia was set to sub-zero. New arrivals, refugees from last week’s steam bath in Charlottesville, might have welcomed the chill. But those of us who’d stayed from the previous workshop in...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Carole Duff | Jul 10, 2017 | Writing and Reading | 
Last week, a rejection email showed up in my inbox. “Although I don’t find your essay right for our needs, I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to consider it,” the editor wrote. Nice Try but no Trophy. Submitting a piece for publication is like...