Tag: Ashely Adams

  • AWW Best-in-Show Fellowship: Ashely Adams’ short story “What the Water Told Us”

    AWW Best-in-Show Fellowship: Ashely Adams’ short story “What the Water Told Us”

    In 2017, Antioch Writers’ Workshop entered into a partnership with the University of Dayton, and is formally known as The Antioch Writers’ Workshop at the University of Dayton. The University of Dayton provides in-kind space—a physical office, mailing address, and space for the Spring one-day seminar and Summer week-long event. Other benefits include availability of…

  • “You Never Know What You’ll See”: A Conversation with B.J. Hollars by Ashely Adams

    “You Never Know What You’ll See”: A Conversation with B.J. Hollars by Ashely Adams

    “Once upon a time there lived a bird and then that bird stopped living.” The straight-forward narrative of the Ivory billed woodpecker is the first line B.J. Hollars’ Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds, but this is more than a book about a bird. Hollars leads us through museum collections, Christmas Bird Counts,…

  • Poetry: “Laurentian” by Ashely Adams

    Poetry: “Laurentian” by Ashely Adams

    I want to be cinders and paddle-wake,birth-warm to the touch. But I am not a metal vein,and this sea who plays at youth—trapped in August or October.It doesn’t matter when: the storm always white-cap scales and copper-greenbleeding fangshook and drag mepast sturgeon’s diamonds. Down, down to the kingdom of 32 degrees.Thrones of ore-sunk ship,a crown…