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Author: Rachel Dempsey

Rachel Dempsey has written and directed over a dozen plays for numerous acclaimed theater organizations such as Imagination Stage and ArtStream. Her prose has won contests such as The Colorado Gold Rush Literary Awards, the Denver Women’s Press Club Emerging Writers Contest and the Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition. Her short fiction appears in anthologies from Shacklebound Books, Brigids Gate Press, Timber Ghost Press and Twenty Bellows (Pushcart nominated, 2023). She holds a BFA in Drama and English from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a Master’s degree in Journalism from Georgetown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Regis in Denver where she currently lives with her husband and three daughters.

A Story for Every Kind of Mother

Posted on April 29, 2025April 28, 2025 by Rachel Dempsey

My eight-year-old recently asked why so many Disney movies feature deceased or wicked mothers. After a moment to reflect, I answered, “Because if the main characters had positive role models and caregivers, they would get into a lot less trouble and then there wouldn’t be a story.” In Disney’s first full-length animated feature film, Snow…

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A Policy of Truth

Posted on March 25, 2025March 25, 2025 by Rachel Dempsey

As you may have learned by now, this year’s anthology theme is “True Story.” Editors Amy and Deb invite open interpretation of the prompt and rightly so. Like most human constructs, truth exists on a spectrum, at least insofar as it pertains to literature. On one end of the scale lies biography and other journalistic…

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A Perfect Match: Marrying Character and Plot

Posted on February 25, 2025February 24, 2025 by Rachel Dempsey

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had an agent, editor, reviewer or reader praise aspects of your writing but ultimately condemn the whole as “lacking something” or “missing that special spark.” Or perhaps you’ve heard this version: “You’re a very talented writer, I just didn’t connect with the story.” Such feedback, infuriatingly vague as it…

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Attention Liberation

Posted on January 28, 2025January 27, 2025 by Rachel Dempsey

Heavy. I’m hearing this word frequently amongst my friends, as in “Everything feels so heavy right now,” and I agree. Be it the cold and dark weather, the turmoil and tragedies happening across the country and globe, or simply holiday hangover, we’re all searching for some lightness. Until recently, I found mine at the gym….

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My Grown Up Christmas List

Posted on December 24, 2024December 23, 2024 by Rachel Dempsey

Whether you prefer the Kelly Clarkson or Amy Grant version, I encourage you to take a moment as you read this, a pause for reflection and childlike dreaming. What are you wishing for in the coming year? I’ll go first. No more deadlines unmet, all the offers I can get. And time would somehow freeze,…

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