Rachel E. Watson

I have a wide range of genre interests, and I like to tap into new outlets for my creativity. I hope to keep trying new types of writing throughout my life.

Here are some of my published works:

Articles

• My debut poems, "Dinah's Dream," "Sabbath," and "Strange Blood" appeared in the May 2015 issue of Indiana Voice Journal.
• My poetry collection "The Constant Learning Curve" appeared in the fall 2015 issue of TWJ Magazine.
• I have published poems on my own blog that have not appeared elsewhere.
• My latest submissions "The Fallow Field" and "Hymn for Hesitation" will appear in the October 2019 edition of Exhale, a literary journal of the Breathe Writers Conference.

Fiction

• My first short story, "Edie Meets the Poet," was published on May 27, 2015, by Splickety Publishing Group, a flash-fiction outlet that has since closed.
• I published a recurring blog series on an imaginative introvert named Mariah.
• My short story "The Two-Year Strangers" (unpublished) was selected by Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters for an open mic night reading.

Blogs and nonfiction

• This blog, since December 2008

• "Created to Connect through My Writing," May 29, 2017
• "Three Ways Being a Reporter Has Changed My Writing," March 20, 2017
• "Our Best Starts with Our Least," November 14, 2016
• "Five Points in Favor of Taking a Furlough," June 20, 2016
• "What Breathe Means to Me," July 29, 2015
• "How People-Watching Feeds My Imagination," June 10, 2015
• "Exercise: The Writer's Secret Weapon,"  May 1, 2015

• "5 Ways to Stimulate Your Creativity," Josh Mosey's blog, August 19, 2015

• "Why Writers Need to Stick Together," Susie Finkbeiner's blog, May 13, 2015

• "The Art of Saying Yes," alumna guest column, The Herald student newspaper, May 1, 2015
• Feathers & Leaves 2009: A Publication of the Cornerstone University English Society, essay, "The Importance of Forward Motion," April 2009

• My essay in the book was called "Learning How to Love the Abused," April 1, 2009

• College Connection blogger for the newspaper, wrote 16 blog posts that won a Michigan Press Association First Place Award for Blogging in 2008
• Authored feature story on Greenville native and Cornerstone student-athlete Sarah Owens, 2008