William Myrl Smitherman has appeared in Reed Magazine (2016), and this is his fourth PEN prize. His blog, Letters to No One, addresses his time in prison as well as mental health issues and other topics. Find more of his work at www.williammyrl.com.
William Myrl Smitherman
Articles by William Myrl Smitherman
Character Development: A National Novel Writing Month Pep Talk
Writer William Myrl Smitherman writes a pep talk for incarcerated writers for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
Where the Wild Things Are
“I believe we are defined more by what we have done than by what has been done to us. In that sense, we are more robust than those that prey upon us.”
Richard
“He had not changed, he would not grow, he was the thing that died when it was born and hid beneath the shadows of the porch and vanished in the grass.”
