PACT Peeps!
We hope you’re doing well and slowly coming down from that post-AWP high. Hydrate. Stretch. Re-enter the surreal gently. This week’s post is absolutely CHOCK-FULL of PACT announcements and updates.
FIRST UP!
Please welcome our new Editor — Allison C. Macy-Steines!
Brilliant hybrid writer, fabric artist, and prose priestess, Allison graces PACT with her keen, ethereal eye. Hailing from her castle in the clouds, she brings her thoughtful attention to our content, and we are more than pleased — enchanted even — to welcome her and her awesome-ness to the team!
Recess Reviews — Bigfoot Energy Incoming
We’d also like to give a shout-out to the brave folks who answered the call to participate in our Recess Reviews!
A big Sasquatch THANK YOU to Linda Colwell and Georgina Marie Guardado — Pac U alums and writers extraordinaire. Keep your eyes open for their reviews on the Substack coming soon!
Linda Colwell
Linda is a writer, farmer, and chef. She studied at Connecticut College and LaVarenne in Paris, France, and holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband.
Georgina Marie Guardado
Georgina is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Lake County, CA (2020–2024), and a 2021 Poets Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. She is the Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library and President of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. She earned her MFA from Pacific University, where she received the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers and MFA Merit endowments. She resides in Northern California.
Update on At the Desk — Season 3
Due to the thriving creative careers of the team who steered At the Desk, the band has officially disbanded. We’ll be retiring the monthly segment for now.
BUT!
If you — yes, YOU — would like to host and interview another alum, we can absolutely revive it as a one-to-one feature. Or, if you’d like to be part of a new team for Season 4, please send your inquiries to: PactDeskSet@gmail.com
That’s all for now!
Onward into Season Three.
May your drafts be brave and your edits merciful.
Atina + Mike
Thank you all at PACT Desk, some of us have been dutiful to your posts, albeit quiet. Best to you and Mike as you soar. 💕