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Works


What I’ve Learned from My Modern Love Rejections, May 10, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
A tongue-in-cheek rationalization for my Modern Love rejections, leading me to believe I'm neither modern nor loved!...
J Hopkins
May 10, 2022


Let Us Now Praise Ex-Boyfriends, May 4, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
I’m here to praise ex-boyfriends. To continue the ironic analogy to the title of James Agee’s book about Depression-era tenant farmers,...
J Hopkins
May 4, 2022


The Day I Met Paul McCartney (spaghetti is involved), April 23, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
“Paul McCartney is downstairs and will do a quick meet-and-greet with photos, if you hurry.” That’s what I heard one day when I worked...
J Hopkins
Apr 23, 2022


Pipe Dream, April 20, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
Here's a remembrance from a time I spent a "big birthday" at a Beverly Hills spa, a day in which I was mostly broke and brokenhearted. I...
J Hopkins
Apr 20, 2022


What's Your Writing Style?, April 13, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
What defines your writing style? I rarely revert to Wikipedia for the best definitions, but I do like the simplicity of this: “Beyond the...
J Hopkins
Apr 13, 2022


“I Will Always Love You" - Maybe Not, April 10, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
If you’ve ever sent out query letters to agents, you know the pain you feel when you get rejection letters back. It’s similar to the pain...
J Hopkins
Apr 10, 2022


Persistence — April 6, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
Persistence. Quite a word. The website etymonline.com tells us that the word originated in the 1540s from the French and Latin, meaning...
J Hopkins
Apr 6, 2022


Reading My Poems for National Poetry Month, April 1, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
The wonderful editors at Gyroscope Review gave their published poets a chance to read three poems that had been published anywhere, not...
J Hopkins
Apr 1, 2022


Is There a Leopard in Your Life? — March 31, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
What happens if you don’t follow your dreams? Researchers from Cornell University and the New School for Social Research found that...
J Hopkins
Mar 31, 2022


Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part III – March 24, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
Months passed. I published a personal essay in The Los Angeles Times, as well as poems in various journals and was a runner-up in a...
J Hopkins
Mar 29, 2022


Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part II– March 23, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
In another year or so, I exhumed my book proposal and thought it good enough to send to another New York agent. It worked — again....
J Hopkins
Mar 29, 2022


Don’t Abandon Your Dream, Part I – March 22, 2022, by Jude Hopkins
One day, long ago, I sat on the floor in my apartment in Tempe, Arizona, surrounded by notes, outlines, and a copy of a well-known novel...
J Hopkins
Mar 22, 2022


Proximity Magazine's Personal Essay Contest judged by Hanif Abdurraqib. I was 3rd runner-up
The Diagnosis, by Jude Hopkins I woke up feeling Sister’s cool fingers pushing my sticky hair off my forehead. The orange walls, the...
Jude Hopkins
Mar 16, 2022


Metamorphosis
Issue 21-4 Fall 2021 Crone Power Issue I remember it was dark when we arrived at the Tucson motel, its neon sign blinking “Pool,” the...
Jude Hopkins
Mar 16, 2022


Personal essay: "School's Over; Lesson Learned" published in The Los Angeles Times July 2013
I was driving south on the 405 Freeway to meet my former high school boyfriend at a hotel. I had met up with him a few months earlier at...
Jude Hopkins
Sep 1, 2020


Between Two Worlds: When Desire Lingers After a Breakup
Published in P.S. I Love You, Medium, July 14, 2020 He was married. But I was still in limbo. It was 10 p.m. when I finished teaching my...
Jude Hopkins
Jul 14, 2020


Where Are The Men Who Love Logophiles? Published in the belladonna June 17, 2019
Confound It! I once read that Woody Allen learned vocabulary words by keeping lists in his underwear drawer. I’m not quite as obsessive....
Jude Hopkins
Jun 17, 2019


Poem: "How We Once Moved" — Published in California Quarterly Vol 35. No. 3
Over a cup of instant tea, you told me you were married, somewhat content, a father and a teacher. I suppose such a rendering — given...
Jude Hopkins
Apr 1, 2016


Poem: "The Over-Ripe Imagination in Buckle-Up Country" — Published in Timber Creek Review, Vol. 15.
The sun, like the hills, tempers the natives, appearing only after cresting the Alleghenies and departs long before turning in for the...
Jude Hopkins
Mar 31, 2016


Poems published in Grey Sparrow Journal Issue 22 — Three Poems
Vis Vitae When I ask, the seller admits a man died in the house, but nearly a century ago, of glanders, a disease he says no one even...
Jude Hopkins
Sep 27, 2015
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