Clear Out the Static in Your Attic

An easy-to-follow guidebook. This is the ultimate collection of fun and thought provoking writing inspirations, exercises, reflections, and prompts for story
writers and poets alike. This book includes prompts, examples, and helpful nuggets of creative power to set you
on your way to writing the best work of your life.Your mind is like your attic -- it's already filled with everything you need to write your story or poem -- a lifetime's worth of material. We're here to help you take your memories along with the wealth of words that are already part of your life and assemble them into stories, poems, and essays.

Organized around items you might find in an attic, the prompts in this book will help you find inspiration in everyday objects and experiences.

is a graduate of The Iowa Writer's Workshop, former National Poetry Slam participant, a screenwriter, a poet, a writing professor, a memoirist, an essayist, a novelist, an editor of the Columbia Poetry Review, a guitarist, and a painter. Her work has been published widely in places like The Boston Review and Sixth Finch and she's won fellowships, like the Iowa Lakeside Fellowship, and contests such as The Indiana Review 1/2 K Prize, an Eileen Lannan Prize in Poetry, and Donald Justice Memorial Prize in Poetry.

earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Goddard Collage and a certificate in literary fiction from The University of Washington Extension. As a fiction editor for Pitkin Review and Farfelu, she learned 1,357 ways not to write. Isla and her husband make their home in Seattle where Isla serves on the board of Richard Hugo House.