Poems in different genres about social issues; working class jobs; love and lust; nature; discrimination against men; women's issues; lesbian desires; stories and characters; family, and more selected from years of writing. Ava Collopy's poems and short stories are published in 'Down in the Dirt', 'In Our Own Words', 'Pulse Literary Journal', 'Ascent Aspirations', 'LanguageandCulture.net', and others.

A sampling of the diversity of the UU* Poetry Group: nine poets offering 49 poems utilizing their unique voices in different genres about art and music, jobs, parenting, social issues, nature, existential questions, travel, and more. With poems by Vince Fitzgerald, Lynn Thomas, Barry Green, Ann Holznagel, Ava Collopy, Claire Carder, Stephen Collopy, Barbara Steffek-Schramm, and Ruth Ann Homan. This and the editor's other books are available as E-book or paperback from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Powell's Books, and elsewhere. Excerpts, Author Q&A, Photos, and more are on her website:...

The author discusses what she learned about being a good writer and editor from trying to adapt her three novels into screenplays. One novel, '8 Days a Week', is included, fully adapted into a screenplay, for anyone who wishes to read the original and the adaptation side by side to learn better. And the story adapted into a stage play is also included.

Covers various aspects of the craft, practice, and profession of writing, from complete beginners, in a three-year process. It is not meant to be fully-comprehensive, but rather an outline to follow over three years, listing many of the areas one must cover to succeed as a writer. Written by an author of several books.

A pedantic show of the wasted human potential of the forgotten many of the working class, and the lie of the "American Dream." Ava Collopy is published in... Nonfiction: 'Down in the Dirt'. Fiction: 'Adrift', 'Brilliant Flash Fiction', 'Sunlight in the Sanctuary', and others. Poetry: 'Poetry Pacific', 'Verse Virtual', 'Re/ Verse', and others. She's traveled through North America and Europe while doing various paid and volunteer jobs from the very blue collar (like landscape laborer) to the white collar (office jobs). She's a happily life-long non-mom with many friends, who's oft enjoyed being...

Like a cross between 'Flash Fiction International' and 'Best Travel Writing' but primarily about working class people in Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, California, and Dublin, Ireland. A mixture of short stories, flash fiction, micro fiction, and a novella at the end comprising a plethora of characters and settings in these diverse, eclectic cities. (The novella includes one song and some essays by characters in the story.) (A little of the content in a few of the stories should be seen as adults only material.)