It’s Spotlight’s 15th Anniversary —going strong. We can ask what this means to readers and writers, but it goes without saying that it does mean something for all. For readers it can mean different things, according to their situations and experiences in life. It can mean bridging...
Remembering back a few years, I don’t remember how I first got in touch with Robin, but the first article I sent in was rejected. I was very disappointed, but she liked my writing, it just wasn’t what she was looking for at the time....
Spotlight on Recovery Magazine has had tremendous impact on my life. The articles composed in each issue are uplifting and inspirational. But not only that, I’ve found Spotlight Magazine to be very therapeutic for me because as a writer the topic and subject matter that the...
Spotlight on Recovery…. I guess I could say just that. This magazine, for me, was a Godsend and my saving grace — in every sense of the term. At a time in my life, when my incarceration effectively robbed me of my self-worth as I...
When I think about “Spotlight on Recovery” I think about life, because that is exactly what I felt when Ms. Graham responded to my query letter. I have been in prison for 11 years and approximately 4 years ago, I was given another chance at...
Twenty years ago this October, I founded Spotlight on Recovery Magazine. I used writing therapy to begin a dialogue about personal traumas and how to release the pain to heal. I began this journey a few weeks after 9/11 in 2001. I knew about personal trauma,...