Allie BlumPickingThis poem was originally published in Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk January 2019 special mental health edition.Mar 25, 2021Mar 25, 2021
Allie BlumOn Walking the Morning After the InsurrectionI didn’t wake up particularly early the morning after the insurrection. My alarm sounded at 7 AM, then I doomscrolled for 20 minutes. I…Jan 13, 2021Jan 13, 2021
Allie BlumWhy I Write — Fiction SoutheastMy writerly life ebbs and flows — there are times were my appetite to write is insatiable and other times where my palette is dry, where…Aug 5, 2020Aug 5, 2020
Allie Blum60th Time’s a Charm: On Getting Published After Being Rejected by 59 Literary MagazinesIn the spring of 2018 I signed up for my first writers workshop through the New Orleans Writers Workshop. Outside of taking a semester of…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Allie BlumMy 2019 Year-in-Books ReviewIn 2019 I committed to one of my new year’s resolutions most stringently: read more and read books by a diverse group of authors. As a slow…Jan 17, 2020Jan 17, 2020
Allie BlumDeath By Retirement — Chaleur MagazineSaul died unexpectedly at the age of 85. His death day started out as an unremarkable one. He took a shower, shaved, ate a peanut butter…Feb 6, 2019Feb 6, 2019
