Everything Intensely (San Francisco Writers Conference Writing Contest Anthologies, #2022)

The old advice is to "write what you know." What we know most authentically is what we feel, and after a global pandemic, escalating natural disasters, and global violence destabilized our economy and reached into our lives to disrupt even our most mundane and reliable patterns, our feelings may be a little raw. This year's finalists have channeled intense feelings in a variety of fascinating ways. Their work makes us want to sit each of them down for a long personal chat to ask how? What? ...