A Sweet Way to Beat Rejection
Rejection is a universal part of being a writer. “Get used to it,” they say. “Grow some thick skin.” What they don’t talk about as much is just how much it hurts.
Melanie Brooks
Melanie Brooks is the author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon, 2017). She teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program at Bay Path University, and her memoir, A Hard Silence, about living with the ten-year secret of her father’s HIV will be published in September 2023 by Vine Leaves Press.
Melanie Brooks on social media