Rob Rogers
Author, attorney, backpacker, and lover of the outdoors
Tag: essay
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Come join me on Dec. 14th by Zoom (or in Gainesville) for a live reading of my next essay, “Baby Bear”
I just learned this week that I’ll be joining the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) next Sunday for a live reading of my next essay, “Baby Bear,” with other authors whose pieces have been published in Bacopa Literary Review. Bacopa, which was released just before Thanksgiving, is the annual literary anthology published by WAG and… Read.
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Check out my latest essay in The Florida Writer (“Anger Sister”) and my article in Outdoors Unlimited (“Backpacking Beside the Baltic Sea”)
I was thrilled to have two different pieces published in two different publications today, one creative and one an outdoor travel article. First, my essay titled “Anger Sister” was published this morning in the October 2025 issue of The Florida Writer, the official magazine for the Florida Writers Association. “Anger Sister” is a dedication to… Read.
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Come Join Me (Virtually) on Sept. 27th for a Live Reading of My Essay, “Cognitive Distortion”
I recently learned that an essay of mine titled “Cognitive Distortion” will be published in the next issue of Thorn & Bloom magazine, and its publisher will be hosting an online Live Author Reading event on Saturday, September 27th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST). The other authors… Read.
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My Essay “Mardi Gras ‘95” Has Won First Place for Nonfiction in the SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Contest
I was overjoyed to learn recently that an essay of mine titled “Mardi Gras ‘95” has won First Place for Nonfiction in the 2025 SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest. The contest is hosted by the San Luis Obisbo NightWriters, a writing community in Central California that provides writing education, opportunities, resources, workshops, and scholarships.… 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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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.
