Fans of Military Experience and the Arts, We are proud to inform you of the release of Jerad W. Alexander’s first novella, The Life of Ling Ling. Alexander is a writer and the Associate Editor of The Blue Falcon: A Journal of Military Fiction and editor-at-large for The Journal of Military Experience. From 1998-2006 he served…
The New York Times‘s Cecilia Capuzzi Simon recently highlighted the community-building, therapeutic outreach of Military Experience and the Arts in her article, WARRIOR VOICES: Veterans learn to write the words they could not speak. In the article, Simon features work from several MEA authors, including Micah Owen, holding these examples up alongside other veteran authors and communities such…
The work to launch the Arts and the Military/Arts, Military + Healing (AMH) week in the Washington, DC area this past May is beginning to do what we all had hoped it would do — the event is inspiring new and exciting ventures throughout the country, as well as bringing tremendous press coverage to the…
The Living and the Dead: War, Friendship and the Battles that Never End “The worst feeling,” Sergeant Tom Whorl scribbles in a small spiral notebook, “is not knowing when your last step will be. That’s what takes a toll on your brain.” With those simple words, he captures the gut-wrenching day-to-day, life-and-death struggles and triumphs…