Streetlight Magazine | Emily Littlewood | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/emilylw/activity/ Activity feed for Emily Littlewood. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:48:06 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f4f84f23690f0bb95324c73caf36b811 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41231 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:00:30 -0500 What is Happening?!? by Emily Littlewood I used to laugh at my husband and call him old man (he’s nine years older) when he would reminisce on his childhood, and how much better it was than c […]

]]> 3764430e7abd9b9e74c6074c397fc927 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40688 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:00:34 -0400 Vacations are great, but . . . by Emily Littlewood We are going on the trip of a lifetime and the two parts of my personality are at war. Anxiety/control vs. procrastination/let it ride. It’s really […]

]]> 7551ddc6ec75c6964bca6f8d9764dc4a Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40159 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:00:29 -0400 Comfort in the Unknown by Emily Littlewood Like a lot of people, I’ve dealt with health issues my whole life. I have cystic fibrosis, which comes with a cornucopia of symptoms, like d […]

]]> 273b19bea1a7c0c560f58224c221dbb6 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37860 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:00:22 -0400 A Change of Scenery by Emily Littlewood I’ve been having trouble reading lately. Actually, for the last few years. I can’t seem to sit down with a book and focus on it long enough to get thr […]

]]> 82a816b50baef6549af51da6b5e22daa Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=37079 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:00:11 -0500 The Best Piece of Writing Advice Most Writers Don’t Listen To by Lauren Sapala For most writers, writing is a strong inner calling. It feels like a passion that they can’t ignore, a destiny they must fulfill. And for writers w […]

]]> 1ea9ce569d6bf44568a8c9102c7ae599 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=36987 Fri, 10 Nov 2023 11:00:37 -0500 Interview by J Brooke of Hotel Cuba's author Aaron Hamburger I first met Aaron Hamburger at a cocktail party during grad school. I was a writing student focusing on nonfiction and poetry and Hamburger was part […]

]]> eca9f750ac41356474621e7a89b57324 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=36751 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:00:12 -0400 The Thrill of the Sale by Emily Littlewood Recently I was able to convince my husband to let go of a small part of his hoard/collectibles (vocab depending on who you ask). This was accomplished […]

]]> a7b0ba302fde5a79e127d197a727853d Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=35831 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:00:04 -0400 Afterglow by Emily Littlewood My dog sits right next to me. He’s a fourteen-almost-fifteen year old soft-coated wheaton terrier. He’s recovering from another bout of pneumonia, onl […]

]]> f1c4e24671f32ea7775526ef4259d642 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=35349 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:00:24 -0500 When Writing Isn't Fun Anymore by Lauren Sapala I was working with a new client who had come to me because she said she hated her writing life. As I sat with her on Zoom and asked her questions […]

]]> 9434a894308594e3b13a8edb1f596dba Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=34675 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:00:22 -0400 Collateral Damage: 48 Stories, the title of Nancy Ludmerer’s debut collection of captivating short stories, invites threat and suspense, but her sterling craft and literary sensibilities upend all e […]

]]> e960b85593d209ded485075dd54cccca Emily Littlewood commented on the post, The Notebook by Susan Valas https://streetlightmag.com/2022/07/29/the-notebook-by-susan-valas/#comment-475546 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:44:14 -0400 Hi Kate,
You’ll be able to find this as a hard copy in Streetlight’s 2022 anthology, which will come out next year. So glad you’re enjoying the pieces in our magazine!

]]> 9f6d7268ec3103d23147e9e886e211b3 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=34218 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 06:00:24 -0400 Every year, hundreds of new books on productivity are published on Amazon. Out of all these books, a significant slice is dedicated to productivity for writers. Many of the titles promise to teach us how to write […]

]]> 97a4808fe15e317fcfa2f9a5abd33604 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=34197 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:39:21 -0400 STREETLIGHT’S 2022 SUMMER FLASH FICTION CONTEST
Send us your shorts by July 11!
1st Prize — $125
2nd — $75
3rd — $50
Entry Fee: $10

CONTEST GUIDELINES:

Up to 500 of your best, previou […]

]]> 87242b9256d1e1cabec68bb7905b4339 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=34195 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:38:37 -0400 STREETLIGHT’S 2022 SUMMER FLASH FICTION CONTEST
Send us your shorts by July 11!
1st Prize — $125
2nd — $75
3rd — $50
Entry Fee: $10

CONTEST GUIDELINES:

Up to 500 of your best, previou […]

]]> 1a001c04efcf5c059d7dfca9d269df55 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=34193 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:37:43 -0400 STREETLIGHT’S 2022 POETRY CONTEST
August 15 to October 31
1st Prize — $125
2nd — $75
3rd — $50
Entry Fee: $10 FOR UP TO 3 POEMS

CONTEST GUIDELINES:

Up to three of your best, previously unpubli […]

]]> 4a1be478b592659326106cd8bb6d52df Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=33772 Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:00:10 -0400 Cottonmouth
As the boat eased out on
the pond, there was just enough
light to see pale ribbons of sky
rippling in the water. Dad
paddled ahead with slow, heavy
strokes, but the lives watching
from trees, […]

]]> 639862e1f3d47f606dd649052e6f05d0 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=33336 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:00:59 -0400 Hello Book Lovers!
I’m happy to share that my novel, The Book Lovers, will be published in October 2023 by Regal House Publishing, a small, highly congenial press that specializes in literary fiction. Set in G […]

]]> 1295c355654ba5469535be025a4bb390 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=32636 Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:00:04 -0500 Sarah and Anna by Emily Littlewood My sister and I have always loved each other, but we really didn’t like each other until I moved out of the house. During a few of the rare o […]

]]> 770e22564047f31acd6e145eeedae000 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=32336 Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:00:06 -0400 I’ve published five books (three nonfiction and two fiction) and there’s so much I wish I would have known before publishing, that I now know through the long, hard road of experience. Whether you’re going the […]

]]> 1424f85fe3a3aee52e01ddf0f190bf89 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=32215 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:00:59 -0400 Do you constantly compare yourself to other writers?

Do you set goals for yourself as a writer and then somehow fall short of them every time?

Do you start new writing practices full of enthusiasm, but then […]

]]> ee94fe8ed0e76f492573fc81d3e6a352 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=31602 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:00:30 -0400 A proposed 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project introduced in the House of Representatives last month is gaining broad support from literary and writers’ organizations hard hit by the Covid pandemic.

The bil […]

]]> 7b09d5d0494743d883479620783d5b6c Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=31586 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:00:17 -0400 There are silhouettes of dogs cavorting on the cover, barking and begging, and a misspelled title. Was it so foolish to assume that the first-person narrator at the start of Alice Kaltman’s beguiling new novel D […]

]]> 5ba694e569d95cfb44726d28b2411b1a Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=31412 Mon, 24 May 2021 11:00:47 -0400 I get emails and messages from aspiring writers all the time asking me for the one thing they should know, or the one thing they should do, in order to be a successful writer. Well, there’s never just “one thi […]

]]> 26c49a4a2838e3ec0d9ca0f43879a605 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=30760 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:00:34 -0400 “A vegetarian walked into a bar. . . . I only know because he told everyone within two minutes.” That joke perfectly encapsulates why I never tell anyone that I am a vegetarian. I either hypocritically write a blo […]

]]> 7a6b168e73d0d61448027aa2fb3e55cb Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=31196 Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:00:48 -0400 Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · The Murmuration by S.W. Gordon
 

 

Podcast: The Murmuration is story about bad choices.

A fictional story performed by Jennifer Sims.

Read the story on […]

]]> 315a0fc30a32bd52348363f473e91e54 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=30701 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:00:32 -0500 It was late December, and I was heading to downtown Vienna during a pandemic. As I reflected on the task ahead of me, buying Christmas presents for my mother and grandmother, the mayhem inherent in completing that […]

]]> 4aad2fe8b35c4937b22b8a4bb075be3b Emily Littlewood commented on the post, Beauty of Decay: Photographs by Daniel Pravda https://streetlightmag.com/2020/11/23/beauty-of-decay-photographs-by-daniel-pravda/#comment-191029 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:51:01 -0500 Hi Mary!
The easiest way to send this would to be to copy the website address and paste that into an email, text, etc.
Glad you enjoyed!

]]> 7ff1565b1ab56a433cf47e96e12bf0ff Emily Littlewood commented on the post, Day Five Million by Emily Littlewood https://streetlightmag.com/2020/11/09/30008/#comment-187000 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:44:38 -0500 I wouldn’t mind that, although the inside of our house isn’t really big enough for more than one dog. Plus whatever I get would have to be a non-shedder, so that definitely limits the breeds as well. Definitely […]

]]> 9cae451af270381c7b52b66f1b8617da Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=30008 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:00:05 -0500 I’m bored. Really, really bored.

Since the cases of COVID went back on the rise about a month ago I’ve been put back on shelter-in-place orders. Since my transplant I’ve been immunosuppressed, so I have to be […]

]]> 445658556c73bbcbe5179ac74507b317 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=28187 Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:00:34 -0400 When I first started writing, I couldn’t even call myself a writer. I had been NOT writing for seven years before I joined a silent writing program that I went to once a week to sit down and scrawl out a m […]

]]> 2c2a973daf53110e26b407d5498a4eaa Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=28190 Mon, 04 May 2020 09:00:02 -0400 If you’re a writer with even minimal involvement in the online writing community, chances are that you’re familiar with the terms, “plotter,” and “pantser.” And if you’re a plotter who manages to successfully […]

]]> b197fc094f5acbed7a7959840bf0f8a2 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=27128 Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:00:36 -0500 Although I have always considered myself a writer, I have also spent many years not writing. In fact, for most of high school, college, and my 20s, I didn’t write at all. Not one story, not one poem. During that p […]

]]> a33f5733dc05671bea5cddea27a8dbbe Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=27130 Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:00:36 -0400 All my life I’ve been attracted to weird things. And all my life I’ve been very much aware that other people think I’m weird for being attracted to those weird things. Sometimes it’s that I can’t help but be dr […]

]]> 8ef9f49646fa4052949667c64c1e7051 Emily Littlewood commented on the post, And You, Do You Love Too? and Not Really a Game, Not Really, 2 poems by Claire Scott https://streetlightmag.com/2019/07/12/and-you-do-you-love-too-and-not-really-a-game-not-really-2-poems-by-claire-scott-spring-2019/#comment-83809 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:57:23 -0400 Hi Sheryl, we post new content every Friday and new blogs most Mondays.

]]> 008f5dd18dab78dfdd4793ceb22b3697 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25961 Mon, 05 Aug 2019 12:00:48 -0400 Writing my first novel was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. It took me two full years to get through the first draft, and I felt like I was slogging my way through the entire time. I would write sections of the b […]

]]> ec4f408e6ef0c16586729c0be5c40af6 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25959 Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:00:09 -0400 All my life I’ve gotten into random conversations with people where the subject of our life trajectories comes up, and I always end up feeling kind of weird. This past weekend I hung out with a friend who told m […]

]]> 9fd8d60af288657d94a0434f0481feeb Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25529 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:25:59 -0400 By and large, the biggest problem I run into with struggling authors is the challenge they have around marketing themselves. I hear a lot of different reasons for this: “I’m too introverted.” “I hate anythin […]

]]> fb9c018c1cdb40c5fc31f6595c88e092 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24974 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 23:07:43 -0500 

Podcast: Down and out and on the brink of even worse.

A short story performed by Joe Guay.

Read the story online: Turkeys by R.H. Emmers

]]> 643e0405a65cf1651dc9100cc351f094 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=23719 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:57:02 -0400 Things that get in the way, viz., from Online Etymology Dictionary:
1530s, from Latin obstructionem (nominative obstructio) “an obstruction, barrier, a building up,” noun of action from past participle stem of […]

]]> ff595183b918d44950d4fb135b17966e Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=23196 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:52:42 -0400 I’ve lived way out in the country for a little over a year and, with the exception of an inability to have food delivered, I have no complaints. There is something weird about the house though: the r […]

]]> 667abfa8dcdcb73a679ec11f745aa0fe Emily Littlewood changed their profile picture https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/1358/ Fri, 25 Aug 2017 13:27:43 -0400 0 063171b83ff718309dfa47fa346601dd Emily Littlewood changed their profile picture https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/1357/ Fri, 25 Aug 2017 13:26:39 -0400 0 132657e8e4b1cecb52b6520625474514 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=20625 Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:09:08 -0400 Horror is my favorite movie style by far. There are endless sub-genres, including supernatural, inbred/cannibalistic families on the prowl, suspense/thriller, cult related brainwashing activities, etc., etc. (they […]

]]> e1efd7238facb219c84369bbc359560f Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=20496 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:05:05 -0400 Time to break out the champagne! Streetlight Magazine’s second annual essay/memoir contest ended July first and the judging was completed yesterday. Whew!

Seriously, we’ve looked at a lot of great essays. Wri […]

]]> 80a3b32b4f2ea23dd9a4570aad18d63e Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19993 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:38:45 -0400 I’ve forgotten how hard moving is. Not just the organizing and packing but the time spent in small details; the time spent on the phone and mad-dash trips to the store for tape and bubble wrap.

My husband and I […]

]]> 6f94bf83fc545f507df3771afc65d4f4 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=19308 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:00:33 -0500 In a word: Yes.

In their defense they did save me from a slow, painful wasting away. I was under 100 pounds when I got them—and it’s not the lungs’ fault, exactly. It’s the drugs I take to keep my body from re […]

]]> 087611a9541c24f37a4c049df04a0257 Emily Littlewood wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=18586 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:00:32 -0400  

I’m not surprised that I adore copy editing Streetlight Magazine. It’s a wonderful marriage between my slightly obsessive-compulsive tendencies and my love of reading. Perusing numerous pieces of writing whil […]

]]> a7110ba78a35a193880356ad7c179fdf Emily Littlewood and Sharron Singleton are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/495/ Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:14:28 -0400 0 5753ca96fff4bf843e5a11bada56a568 Emily Littlewood and Suzanne Freeman are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/492/ Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:23:28 -0400 0 6f8a1110b276a1e7ea60fef9a5e55063 Emily Littlewood and Trudy are now friends https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/488/ Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:46:34 -0400 0