Stories, scripts, and poems begin here—with the questions we carry, the memories we can’t quite name, and the scenes that won’t leave us alone. In this blog, Jacqueline Murray Loring shares reflections on writing poetry, memoir, and screenplays, offers glimpses into the lives and histories that inspire her books, and invites fellow writers to explore how craft, courage, and careful editing can turn lived experience into art.

Collaboration

FROM JACQUELINE: I am proud and gratified to announce that my collaboration with Patricia A. Cahill has resulted in the completion of her two vitally important memoirs. In December 2019, Albuquerque filmmaker Lynn Mathews recommended me to Trish as a Developmental...

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Peace Begins Inside Family

In the beginning… In 2012, I interviewed the first of seventeen in-country Vietnam veterans whose stories appear in Vietnam Veterans Unbroken Conversations on Trauma and Resiliency. In July 2019, my book was published by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers....

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