What the last 18 months has taught me about my craft by Ona Marae I graduated from the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Writing Academy in 2016, at the Washington, DC convention. It was a time of questions. The massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando had been a month before. Extra consideration went into security for a large gathering of lesbians and other WLW writers in a publicly accessible location. It was a good convention and meeting with my classmates for the first ti