Chelsea Catherine is a writer living in St. Petersburg, FL. After graduating from the University of Tampa with their MFA in creative writing, they moved to the Florida Keys where… Read More
Genre: Literary
Classic Skills That Were Once Essential
The Arts Coast Journal asked a range of artists what essential skills they learned when they were starting out – skills that are now being forgotten as digital technology steps… Read More
Thunderstorms and Snowfall
What is your relationship to place? Last week, Florida’s dry season gave way to the summer clouds that grow big and gorgeous across the sky, peaking into Joni Mitchell’s ice-cream… Read More
Happy Pride from The Rookery – Fiction and Poetry
June 7, 2021 | Curated by Chelsea Catherine and Gloria Muñoz Happy Pride from The Rookery! . . . I went to my first Pride in 2016. The parade… Read More
Tenea Johnson
Tenea D. Johnson is a multimedia storyteller, musician, editor, arts & empowerment entrepreneur, and award-winning author of numerous short stories and 8 speculative fiction works, including Frequencies, a Fiction Album and Broken Fevers, of… Read More
Young Voices
Blog #24 For this post I want to say how incredibly grateful I am to encounter such amazing talent from young writers. I am constantly inspired by my students… Read More
Colombia
I’m flying out to Colombia tomorrow, during one of the most difficult times the country has experienced in the last ten years or so. People are so desperate with the… Read More
Watching my mentor at work
Last week I had the opportunity to see my mentor, Roxanne Fay, perform in Jobsite’s production of Henry V. It was my first venture outside after more than a year… Read More
Poems That Follow Us
Blog #23 Once an idea for a poem blooms, I generally finish the poem within a couple of weeks but sometimes I need to live more—for months, or even years—before… Read More
Moments and Decades
You’ve no doubt noticed the time acceleration machine that is the aging process. The relativity of time becomes more pronounced the more attention one pays and as you get older… Read More