ERIN CONWAY

Las cabañuelas.  A friend in Guatemala told me first about the custom.  In my quick Google search for this blog, I found the practice of weather prediction to have both Spanish and Jewish roots, a combination I encounter more than I would have expected.  This Guatemala...

Colored and white twinkling

In the darkest time

Unlit hours of the year,

Your year,

Mine.

Switch the light off in candle glow.

To understand how a candle dies,

Turns inward

To disappear.

A flicker glows stronger,

Briefly,

Still

Then dark,

Winter.  Still.

But not really.

Unseen mornin...

On a friend’s couch in September one woman raised her voice to match the ire at scheduling, or lack thereof, around Jewish High Holidays combined with her employer’s resistance to taking time off.  “That, is what my Floating Holidays are for.”  She slumped back into th...

The classes are once a week.  Both of them.  Hebrew.  Group Personal Training.  Once a week.  The classes are extra.  They’re worth more, so you work more.  Let me explain.

Training.  Learning.  New movement patterns.  Relearning letters....

Reindeer shake.

Bells are ringing.

Ringing ears with too much,

Of the same,

Of the never ending.

In the summer, my dog shook.

More than usual.

No bells.

Uncontrollably.

No downy flake.

Mostly, his behavior changed

After he barked

As if his own voice

Was his irritation.

“It is,” the...

And just like that, it’s been a year.  I accepted a Diverse Book Challenge last January.  Some of the books I read, I included in the monthly blog posts.  Others, I read only for myself.  It is important to create the lists of stories, read them and pass them on, but I...

When I returned from Guatemala five years ago, I had never cooked a Thanksgiving dinner.  I had spent ten years of Thanksgiving celebrating with pulique, the traditional soup served with tamales in the Kaqchikel village where I lived.  I was always the invited.  I ate...

The question used more as a joke, we know it well, “Why do women go to the bathroom in groups?” 

I don’t recall that I am concerned with such a habit.  I would go so far as to say, I don’t do this, actively seek out opportunities to go to the bathroom in groups.  Not to...

The Hopper

PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATIONS

Fiction

“Stolen” by Erin Conway

Nonfiction

“The Space Between” by Janine DeBaise
“A Better Animal” by Talley V. Kayser

Poetry

“Boson Particles, Light Snow” by Elizabeth Dodd
“For the Young” by Shelby Newsom
“Writing Like Trees, Writing Wi...