The Hill Writes Blog

I have long admired Cleaver international literary journal for its professional, edgy, glittering support of poetry and the arts. So it was with great joy that I got word that my poem "Untitled Mural" had garnished third place in their 2025 visual poetics contest. All the more so because visual poetry is really new to me and not something I have embraced, but rather something I fell into trying at the encouragement of colleagues at the VCFA Summer Manuscript Workshop. In fact

Unlikely Stories is a web literary magazine that has been wrestling with sociopolitical issues since 1998. Their editors describe the mag as activist, transgressive, and unapologetically antifascist. I am pleased as punch, therefor, to have my long-short-story (publisher Jonathan Penton classifies it as a novella) of near-future political apocalypse appearing on the pages of this edition of Unlikely Stories Six. The Last Two Chocolate Chip Cookies in Manhattan was written jus

Plant-Human Quarterly is a stunning online journal that is a project of the Plant-Human Communication Project of the Netherlands, supported by the Dutch Creative Industries Fund. The aim of the Plant-Human Communication Project, and Plant-Human Quarterly, is to bridge science, technology and art to restore our sense of belonging within, and thus our responsibility toward, natural ecosystems. I feel extremely grateful to have two poems in this Autumn Equinox edition -- you can

The Meadow Suite spiraled into being over the final three days of a creative residency at the In Situ Polyculture Commons in Saxtons...

Earlier this summer I had the privilege of seeing a poem written collaboratively by myself and Virginia Mazzoni appear in the...

What does it mean to retreat ? Oxford dictionaries define it as to "withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or...

https://sonnetcontest.org/2025-winners/2025-winners-sonnets The Maria Faust Sonnet Contest is something I mark ahead on my calendar every...

https://poetrysocietyofvermont.org/event/thecollaborativepoet/ Feeling isolated in your writing? Join me October 4, 2025 in beautiful...

Such wonderful summer party fun to have Dear Booze's Cocktales publish my sonnet "Drinking Sangria in the Garden." Dear Booze has...

Heuristic Halo Press is a gorgeous online literary magazine out of Myanmar (Burma). I'm honored to have my poem Flayed appearing in this...

One problem with writing formal poetry in American English is that we are not a formal people, yah know whud I mean, bub? Yo. Like that....

Vital Truths Fomite Investigations, A Series of Tracts for Our Time   I am absurdly fond of little books – a category in which I include...

Happy National Poetry Month! I'm in Florida at the Wolf Media Festival , meeting writers and filmmakers, giving poetry workshops, and...

Becoming involved in National Poetry Month over the last ten years has been transformational for me. April was always, indeed, the...

Book cover art helps sets a mood for the poetry within, inviting readers to enter into a world of tone and color different from their...

Three of my poems were published in Verse Virtual, January 1, 2025. "Late Night in the Garden," "My Love is Like Hammering Nails," and...

The sonnet originated in Sicily, and several hundred years passed before it moved into English and the form we've come to know as the...

The Beals Preserve in Southborough Massachusetts runs a lovely annual Art on the Trails program. Sculpture proposals are selected in the...

Cindy Ellen Hill was chosen to be the featured reader at VCFA's online Alumni Reading on September 12th, 2024.