Alexandria Peary

Writer, Mindful Writing Practitioner & Professor, Composition-Rhetoric Scholar, Researcher of Writing Blocks NH State Poet Laureate, Author of nine books

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

I've a new piece on mindful writing at https://t.co/DhqFHW9bi7:

Free Yourself from Reader Ghosts for Deeper, More Mindful Writing

https://t.co/mOkO71pnxi

#mindfulness #mindful #writersblock @SalemState

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

If you're near your radio at 5:44 PM EST this evening, I'll be talking with @JuliaFurukawa, host of NHPR All Things Considered, about mindful writing.
#NHPR
#mindfulness #mindfulwriting #writerslift

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Teen writers from around the globe! Just one more day to send to the fiction and street poetry contest at Under the Madness Magazine!

https://t.co/4Cqajq2FHf

#teenwriter #writingcontest

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

My new creative nonfiction, "Sleeping with Knick Knacks" (about growing up w/out connection to my German family in #Pforzheim) is in Arts & Letters' 25th Anniversary Issue w/ writers including Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate.

https://t.co/XzAq5PAaXq

#family #Immigration

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Teen writers! Just 13 more days to send yr work to Under the Madness Magazine's fiction & poetry contests! Submissions for Issue 6 also ends on Jan. 15!

https://t.co/5bMBDd2aB1

#WritingCommunity #teens #poetrycontest #fictioncontest @NHArtsCouncil #publish

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The full version of my poem, "The Pforzheim Quartet," about the ramifications of the February 23, 1945, bombing of my mother's birthplace, is published at Consequence:

https://t.co/rgT7S2ZN56

#pforzheim @Pforzheim @stadt_pforzheim #war #peace4humanity

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Calling teen writers!

Deadline of January 15 for two cool writing contests at Under the Madness Magazine:
Short Fiction $200 prize first place
Street Poetry $200 first place

https://t.co/4Cqajq2FHf

#teenwritingcontest #teenagers #WritingCommunity #writerLift

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

2 More Spots Available

Opportunity to study mindful writing (virtually or in-person).

I'll be teaching a HyFlex grad course, Jan-May 2024 at Salem State University.

For full course description & how to enroll:
https://t.co/U3LMjqsDW0

#WritingCommunity #Mindfulness

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

For all the writers out there struggling with endless waiting to hear back from magazines & publishers, here's a short piece I recently published at Author Magazine, "On Mindful Waiting":

https://t.co/FApQctJuDG

#WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Announcing publication of Issue 5 of Under the Madness Magazine! Issue 5 focuses on teen writers ages 13-15 from around the globe with a special half issue on Indian authors (ages 13-15).

https://t.co/5bMBDd2aB1

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Interested in taking a mindful writing class?

My spring semester 2024 graduate course is now open to the public. It meets ONLINE and IN-PERSON. (I'm teaching it HyFlex.)

For more info on the course and how to enroll:
https://t.co/U3LMjqsDW0

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Interested in taking a mindful writing class?

My spring semester 2024 graduate course is now open to the public. For more info on the course and how to enroll:https://t.co/U3LMjqsDW0

#mindfulwriting

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Under the Madness Magazine announces the winners of our Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest (For Writers Ages 13-15)! Essays will be in Issue 5.

‍1st Place: Ahja Hawkins (Louisiana)
2nd Place: Melinda Wang (California)
3rd Place: Sol Lee (Pennsylvania) "Untitled"‍

#teenwriter

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

"The Mindful Storyteller in You" is coming to NH communities, starting 9/20 in Laconia:

Learn mindful writing techniques to start a story you've contemplated telling. Discover unexpected stories waiting to be told!

https://t.co/Z4bM96IiIC

@NHHumanities @NHArtsCouncil

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

A request for a love poem from a man making an album for his wife--a request for an educational video--a request to help fundraise for a library. All in one day.

That's what it can be like to be a state poet laureate, in case anyone's curious.

#whatdoesapoetlaureateactuallydo

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Check out our newest interview with a teen author at Under the Madness Magazine!

P.S. We're running two contests (no fee for teens) right now!

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Issue 5 (Summer 2023) of Under the Madness Magazine is a special issue on teen writers ages 13-15 from India!

We close submissions once we've reach our caps, so send poems/stories/essays soon!

https://t.co/5bMBDd2aB1

#india #indiateens @IndiaWritesTGII @IndiaStudentHub

[Alexandria Peary @WriteMindfully]

Issue 5 (Summer 2023) @utmmagazine spotlights writers 13-15 years old from around the globe. We'd love to consider yr poetry, creative nonfiction & short fiction!

We close submissions once we've reached our caps, so send soon!

#WritingCommunity #middleschool #teens

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Under the Madness Magazine was covered in the Boston Globe!
https://t.co/1hhQxN2NyJ

@utmmagazine @nhcfoundation

#WritingCommunity