June 2013 – Military Experience & the Arts

JME Editors and Contributor Featured on Voice of Warriors Talk Radio

Posted on June 18, 2013 by MEA Admin

At present, Military Experience and the Arts has close to three dozen editors and volunteers working with nearly 200 veterans, veteran spouses, and scholars as they march towards completion of the third volume of The Journal of Military Experience and the first volumes of Blue Streak, Blue Falcon, and Veterans’ PTSD Project publications. In this…

Michael Lund, VPP Workshop Leader On How Writing Impacted His Life & How it Can Impact Yours

Posted on June 10, 2013 by MEA Admin

Michael Lund is one of our workshop leaders in the Veteran’s PTSD Project (VPP) Facebook writing workshop. Lund is a retired professor of English and lives and writes in Virginia. An Army correspondent in Vietnam, 1970-71, he is the author of a collection of short stories, How to Not Tell a War Story, and a novel…

Military Experience and the Arts, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose primary mission is to work with veterans and their families to publish short stories, essays, poems, and artwork in our biannual publication, As You Were: The Military Review, periodic editions of Blue Nostalgia: The Journal of Post-Traumatic Growth and others. To the best of our ability, we pair each author or poet that submits work to us with a mentor to work one-on-one to polish their work or learn new skills and techniques.

Our staff is based all over the country and includes college professors, professional authors, veterans’ advocates, and clinicians. As such, most of our services are provided through email and online writing workshops.

All editing, consultations, and workshops are free of charge. Veterans and their families pay nothing for our services, and they never will.

Under our Publications tab, there are more than two dozen volumes of creative work crafted by veterans and their family members as well as a virtual art gallery. Our blog posts feature short pieces that cover a wide range of opinion editorials, literary reviews, and profiles on veteran artists and writers.

Please consider spending some time navigating our site and reading and seeing the fine work of veterans and their families from around the globe.