I'm deeply honored to be the next Guest Editor for Yellow Arrow Journal Vol. XI, No. 1 issue (spring 2026)!
Read the full blog post to learn more about the importance of curiosity and creativity in my life, and how I invite women writers to consider it in theirs:
Curiosity and Creativity: An Ever-Burning Fire by Heather Brown Barrett — Yellow Arrow Publishing
Submissions open Feb 1 - Feb 28,
See the Yellow Arrow Journal submissions page for more:
Saturday March 7th, 2026 10 am - 4 pm
William & Mary School of Education
301 Monticello Ave
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Book signing!
Exhibiting Authors | Wmbg Book Festival
Join us for the 2026 Williamsburg Book Festival, with over 50 national/regional authors, VA publishing companies, presentation from the Poetry Society of Virginia, workshops, and more.
Saturday November 22, 2025 11am
Windsor Public Library
18 Duke Street
Windsor, VA 23487
Come enjoy refreshments and a poetry reading from Water in Every Room. (And a few other poems!) Book signing after.
This event is free and open to the public. Call 757-242-3046 for more information. Sponsored by the Friends of the Windsor Library.
Windsor Library website: Windsor | Blackwater Regional Library
Books for the WIN - Water in Every Room is one of the featured books for WOW! Women on Writing's Spring into Reading Giveaway!
Giveaway runs from May 1 to May 22, 2025.
Link below for more about the giveaway details, the featured books, and to enter:
Book launch celebration for Water in Every Room
Sunday May 4th, 2025, 2-4 pm
at The Muse Writers Center
2200 Colonial Ave Suite 3
Norfolk, VA 23517
Come enjoy refreshments, a poetry reading, and meet the author!
Book signing and Q&A.
Muse website: The Muse Writers Center
Read the Yellow Arrow Her View Friday blog post about Water in Every Room - April 4, 2025
Poem "Storybook of Heavenly Bodies" received the Editor's Choice Award and publication at formidable Woman sanctuary for the fall 2024 - spring 2025 solace issue
Spring 2025: solace iv – formidable woman sanctuary
(scroll down on the page for my poem)
"Storybook of Heavenly Bodies" was also a finalist (CNF prose form) for the WOW! Women on Writing Q2 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest March 2025.
WOW! Women on Writing Contests: Flash Fiction and Essay Contest
Poem "Opportunists" viewable on the Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail as part of the Poetry On The Trail project.
The Poetry On The Trail mission is to deepen our connection to the environment through the intersection of poetry and nature.
Water in Every Room was a semi-finalist for the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award:
Gather your favorite poems to exchange and join me at the Great Neck Area Library for tea and refreshments and a poetry reading! Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 3:30pm.
To register and for details:
Poetry Tea | Virginia Beach Public Library (librarymarket.com)
Poems "Monolith" and "Come Full Circle" on view (next to beautiful artworks!) in the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Everyone Has a Story exhibit.
December 14, 2023 - February 3, 2024
Everyone Has A Story – Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts
View SCCA's opening reception photo album on Facebook
"Monolith" awarded First Place for Poetry at the Hampton Roads Writers 15th Annual Conference - November 2023
"Baby Boy, Born at 34 Weeks" nominated by The Ekphrastic Review for the 2024 Best of the Net literary awards.
From Moments in Time: An UpSpring Reading by Yellow Arrow Publishing
Moments in Time: An UpSpring Reading by Yellow Arrow Publishing - YouTube