2020 Writing from Inlandia - Editorial Board - Bog

The year began as any other. Sure, there had already been whispering on the news about a novel coronavirus taking hold half a world away, but the odds of it affecting us in the United States were... slim? Roll forward to present and we have a new shared lexicon: Masks. Social distancing. Zoom. Quarantine. COVID-19. Inlandia's workshops moved from in-person to a virtual setting, but we would not be deterred. This year's anthology represents the hope and vision of 62 writers, a mix of returning and new participants, from the region and beyond-because with Zoom, geographic boundaries dissolved. Read to discover the art and heart of memoir, the power of plot, food writing, adventures in chronologyland, poet-try and poets in motion, Joslyn joy and tesoros de cuentos. The Writing from Inlandia series was created to celebrate the participants in our creative writing workshops program and to serve as a record of who we are at the present moment. May these writings pay tribute to a year unlike any other.