The Story Behind “No One Will Ever Love Him”

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Today we’re taking a break from the Q&A with our masthead to bring you a post written by one of our contributors. Read Anne R. Allen’s poem “No One Will Ever Love Him,” (Spring 2013) and find out what event prompted her to compose the piece. The Story Behind the Poem, “No One Will Ever…

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Compose Q&A with Tamara Pratt

Please welcome Tamara Pratt, one of our two fiction editors. Tamara Pratt’s short stories have been published in Australian and USA e-zines and anthologies. She has qualifications in professional writing, and has placed in several short story competitions, including the Glass Woman Prize. In 2011, Tamara was awarded a Fellowship by Eleanor Dark Foundation and…

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Compose Q&A with Lisa Romeo

Please welcome Lisa Romeo, our creative nonfiction editor. Lisa Romeo lives in New Jersey, where she teaches memoir and creative nonfiction in the Rutgers University Writing Program and at The Writers Circle. She also teaches privately online, works as a freelance journalist, independent manuscript editor and writing coach, and edits for a regional website and…

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Compose Q&A with Reem Al-Omari

Reem Al-Omari

Please welcome Reem Al-Omari, one of Compose‘s two fiction editors.  Reem Al-Omari is an American freelance writer and editor living in Denver, Colorado. She holds a BA in Journalism. She has worked as a reporter, a columnist and editor-in-chief of a newspaper, and more importantly, a Literary Director at Progenitor, an annual award-winning art and literary…

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3 Ways to Join the ‘Compose’ Community

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Our warmest welcome from the editorial team here at Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing! Putting together the Spring 2013 issue has been both rewarding and challenging, and we look forward to sharing it with you in just a few weeks. Our inaugural issue features work by Barbara Abercrombie (A Year of Writing Dangerously), Marion Agnew…

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