five minute lit Archives - Elizabeth Maria Naranjo

Posted on June 29, 2024 ·

Image Courtesy of Five Minute Lit

My children are much older now than when I started writing motherhood essays, but the milestones continue. Here’s my latest for Five Minute Lit, on navigating the spaces left behind when a child leaves home.

Also, congratulations to Allie, who won the Reader Review giveaway hosted by Women on Writing this month! Nearly 1,000 readers entered to win a signed copy of What Was Never There. I honestly wasn’t expecting such a great response to a collection of literary short stories and am very thankful.

And finally, I have an exciting bookish update posting here in a week or two, so keep an eye out…

New Story in Fractured Lit and Other Writerly News

Posted on April 30, 2022 ·

Image by Ulrike Leone from Pixabay

Summer Break is weeks away, and although I’m going to miss my students, I can’t wait to have more time for writer-me. Until then I am in full teacher mode, but I wanted to pop in and share a few writerly links from March and April in case you missed them!

In March, one of my dream publications, Fractured Lit, published a little vignette called “Windows.” This piece was originally published in Hunger Mountain (print only) in 2017. I was so happy it found a new home online.

In April, a newish magazine called Five Minute Lit accepted a micro I’d written last summer. The piece will appear in August, but you should check out the site now! Everything they publish is exactly one hundred words.

In May, my short story “Gravity” will appear in an anthology celebrating twenty years of Mothers Who Write, a fabulous workshop I’ve participated in several times. The launch takes place at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix on Saturday, May 7, from 11-1.

Finally, this story reviewer on Instagram took me by surprise last month by tagging me in a review of “Windows.” It made me smile on a day when I really needed it and reminded me why it’s important to share the work we love.