Contributors Elizabeth F. Sweetman is a writer on the North Shore of Massachusetts. She has written numerous short stories, essays, book reviews and is currently working on a novel. She lives with her family and when not writing, she enjoys beekeeping, bicycling, reading and pondering the odd behaviors of her two terriers. She writes under the name Sweetman. You can follow some of her writing on her Wordpress blog. John Coleman is a new media journalist and graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with an Honours Degree in English and a Minor in Journalism. He frequently writes about contemporary Canadian writers for our blog. He also writes for Tangible Sounds Music Magazine. For his latest updates, follow John on Twitter. Check out his blog for all of his published work. Lacey N. Dunham has written for The Washington Spark, The Feminist Review, Buzzard Picnic, Altar Magazine, and Cargoes, among others and is a columnist at the Used Furniture Review. She studied writing at Hollins University and currently lives in Washington, DC. | THIS Reads | John Coleman, Lacey N. Dunham, Sweetman We write! We read! We write about what we read! Occasionally, we read what we write! All the Young Punks | John Coleman 7.6.2011 My sum of all writerly cons are those pompous condescending literary types that ignore what's going on at street level. You know, the fake artists. People who release books under the artistic guise, but all you get is high class values, big business production. The Shop-A-Holic diaries, Dr. Phil dissertations, and Booky Wooks. Intersex Isn't a Word in the Dictionary | John Coleman 3.24.2011 Winter wants us to engage in dialogue about what being intersex can and does mean, and Wingate's article accepts this opportunity. The Final Words | Sweetman 3.24.2011 My first memory of obituaries was hearing them called “the Irish Sports Page” by my grandfather. |