Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

amy cipolla barnes
amy cipolla barnes

608 Followers

Home

Books

About

Featured Book

Ambrotypes
Ambrotypes

Complicated relationships made technicolor by magical realism and imagination.

2022

·
Amy Cipolla Barnes
Amy Cipolla Barnes

Stories

Published in

trampset

·Sep 1

Gone Bookin’

I’ve been told there are two best days of owning a boat: the day you buy it and the day you sell it. I think this may also apply to writing a book. It sounds pessimistic in both cases, perhaps. …

Book Publishing

4 min read

Gone Bookin’
Gone Bookin’
Book Publishing

4 min read


Published in

trampset

·Mar 2

Stretch AWP

My sister and I shared a Stretch Armstrong figurine as kids. He came with bandages in case we accidentally cut him and he oozed red goop. And he did. Often. Kind of like our perpetually-scraped knees covered in Mercurochrome. He was supposed to be indestructible but we were siblings sharing…

Awp

4 min read

Stretch AWP
Stretch AWP
Awp

4 min read


Published in

trampset

·Feb 20

Please stop carpeting over the hard words

If you’ve bought an older home, there’s a chance you’ve tried to pull the carpet away from the baseboards — to check for potential hardwoods. You may have pulled up layer upon layer of past flooring choices. You may have researched how to sandblast paint off brick. The white brick…

Roald Dahl

4 min read

Please stop carpeting over the hard words
Please stop carpeting over the hard words
Roald Dahl

4 min read


Published in

trampset

·Jan 3

What’s Your Literary Bear?

Sad, emaciated bears in dry pools on an artificial ski mountain. Dancing bears in a Florida flea market. Scraggly bears in a nearly-closed roadside zoo. Bears in top hats on theme park stage that closed a few weeks later. …

Trampset

3 min read

What’s Your Literary Bear?
What’s Your Literary Bear?
Trampset

3 min read


Published in

trampset

·Sep 2, 2022

Finding Mustard Seed Inspiration

I had a mustard seed necklace as a child. A tiny seed encased in a tiny glass globe, suspended on a chain. There was much accompanying explanation of faith and perseverance and the importance of tiny things guiding my larger life. I wore the necklace proudly, until I lost it…

Trampset

5 min read

Finding Mustard Seed Inspiration
Finding Mustard Seed Inspiration
Trampset

5 min read


Published in

trampset

·Aug 7, 2022

My writing stinks. Now what?

I’ve been in a writing funk. It’s hot. I’m recovering from Covid and our dogs got skunked. We live in a suburban rural area where skunks roam. Our dogs are friendly. The skunks are not. …

Editing

5 min read

My writing stinks. Now what?
My writing stinks. Now what?
Editing

5 min read


Published in

trampset

·Jun 15, 2022

The Father, The Son and the Not-So-Holy Micro

I’ve always found writing micro fiction to be as hard as longer flash or short stories. Choosing details to include like dialogue or descriptions becomes a matter of words, not paragraphs or pages. My NFFD NZ Micro Madness shortlist micro is only 100 words but it went through major versions…

Trampset

5 min read

The Father, The Son and the Not-So-Holy Micro
The Father, The Son and the Not-So-Holy Micro
Trampset

5 min read


Published in

trampset

·May 13, 2022

Go La! In Praise of Writing Forward

Imagine yourself in Paris. It’s nearing midnight. You’re at a train station that late because you didn’t know the Eiffel Tower lights up at 10:00 and you stood there staring at it for far too long. You’re miles from your Airbnb. The regular train station is closed for repairs and…

Trampset

3 min read

Go La! In Praise of Writing Forward
Go La! In Praise of Writing Forward
Trampset

3 min read


Published in

trampset

·Apr 20, 2022

The Blank of Writing Titles

I loved Mad Libs as a kid and bought them on vacations at Stuckey’s. I created my own Mad Libs on notebook paper and made my friends and family fill in the blanks, hoping for an “Elephant that Ate Crackers in a Jukebox” or something equally wacky. As an adult…

Trampset

5 min read

The Blank of Writing Titles
The Blank of Writing Titles
Trampset

5 min read


Published in

trampset

·Apr 5, 2022

My AWP Post-Mortem

I’ve watched enough medical dramas on TV to know there is something called an M&M conference that doesn’t involve candy — it takes a look at how recent surgeries went. …

Awp

5 min read

My AWP Post Mortem
My AWP Post Mortem
Awp

5 min read

amy cipolla barnes

amy cipolla barnes

608 Followers

Book Author

AMBROTYPES 2022, CHILD CRAFT 2023

Following
  • Allan Ishac

    Allan Ishac

  • Ted Rubin

    Ted Rubin

  • Kyrie Gray

    Kyrie Gray

  • Mark Tulin

    Mark Tulin

  • Christina Hoag

    Christina Hoag

See all (1,788)

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech

Teams