Rob Rogers
Author, attorney, backpacker, and lover of the outdoors
Category: News About Me
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Check out my latest essay in Wilderness House Literary Review
I was honored to have an essay of mine titled “A Suburban Desk Jockey’s Weekend Adventure in the Green Swamp” published today in the summer issue of Wilderness House Literary Review. In this essay, I describe my first point-to-point backpacking trip last June in the Green Swamp West Tract and the Richloam Tract of the Read.
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Check out my article in Go World Travel
My first-ever article in a travel magazine was published this morning in Go World Travel. Titled “Bogesundslandet Nature Reserve: Backpacking Paradise Minutes from Stockholm,” it gives practical details about the nature preserve in Sweden where I backpacked last summer. This was the place also described in Chapter 12 of my book and in my recent Read.
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Check out my latest essay in Still Point Arts Quarterly
I was thrilled to have an essay of mine titled “Rebirth Beside the Baltic Sea” published today in the summer issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly (on pages 16 through 25). In this essay, I describe backpacking I did in Sweden during a family vacation last summer, which I also describe in Chapter 12 of Read.
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My essay “Coining Out” has won Honorable Mention in Four Tulips’ New Beginnings Writing Contest
I was honored to learn last week that an essay of mine titled “Coining Out” was chosen as an Honorable Mention for creative nonfiction in the New Beginnings Writing Contest hosted by Four Tulips, an online literary magazine. “Coining Out” describes the goodbyes I had to say at the conclusion of my partial hospitalization for Read.
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Thank you to Kate Moses and everyone at Craigardan!
I just had the privilege of spending a magical week in the Adirondack Mountains at the Craigardan Spring Writers Retreat, learning from distinguished author Kate Moses and three brilliant women who will certainly also soon be distinguished authors. I highly recommend this program for any new creative writers looking to learn from the best. After Read.
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Thank you, Sunshine Book Co.!
We were privileged to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with our friends at Sunshine Book Co. yesterday for their author celebration behind the bookstore. Thanks again to the Merrick family, and the other authors with whom we spent the early afternoon. Claire was also a trooper and didn’t even demand a cut of sales. We hope Read.
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Come join me (and other local authors) at Sunshine Book Co. in Clermont on Saturday, April 26th
Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day, and I’m thrilled to be joining Sunshine Book Co. for its Independent Bookstore Day celebration all day this Saturday, April 26th at their store at 647 Lake Avenue in Clermont. Among the festivities will be local authors showcasing their books, and I’ll be one of them! Sunshine Book Co. is Read.
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Check out my flash essay in The Florida Writer
I was thrilled to have a contribution of mine published in The Florida Writer yesterday. Titled “Panic Attack,” this was a submission for the magazine’s Paragraphs and Stanzas section, in which writers are invited to submit poetry or creative fiction or nonfiction in response to a writing prompt. The prompt for this issue was, “Do Read.
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Thank you to Writer Advice for posting my article on its “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” blog
I was honored to have an article I wrote about the creation of my first book published yesterday on the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” blog found on the Writer Advice website. My article, titled “What Happens When an Author Responds to a Fanboy Email,” describes how author Diana Helmuth inspired my book. Writer Read.
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