Elizabeth Upshur is a Black Southern storyteller and editor. She is the co-poetry editor at Okay Donkey Mag and is a contributing editor at The Seventh Wave. She is the cofounder of The Southern Esesu Endeavor, a virtual thirdspace for members of the Black Diaspora, and home of the annual 3 day SEE virtual retreat…
Category: Guest Post
Lessons Learned from Dabbling in Other Genres: Translation
In my last blog post, I shared how playwriting has offered me a different perspective in my writing and helped mold my revision process. Today, I want to reach back even further into my writer’s toolkit to talk about what we can learn from translation as a practice and as an integral part of literary…
Lessons Learned from Dabbling in Other Genres with Elizabeth Upshur
Most of us have heard the saying, “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” What this quotation is getting at is that a person who has dabbled in several different fields hasn’t become renowned for their expertise in one particular skill, but instead understands…