Dale Trumbore | Writing

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Staying Composed

Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt

Within a Creative Life

essays for composers

The Composer's Guide to Choral Conferences

Composing the Cold Email

Fifteen Ways to Be Productive When You're Not Composing

Five Ways to Improve Your Bio

How to Get Your First Commission

How to Win More Choral Composition Contests

No More Zombie Poets, Part 1 & Part 2

Questions for Composers and Commissioning Ensembles

Self-Care for Conferences

Sustainable Composing

What to Do When You Lose a Composition Contest

essays for conductors

Don't Expect Congrats

Encouraging Composers Within Your Ensemble

Questions for Composers and Commissioning Ensembles

Self-Care for Conferences

essays for everyone

Bringing a Residency Home

Choosing to Walk

Composer. Poet?

Don't Wait Until You Hear Sirens

The End of the World? We'll Compose It.

Goal-Setting and Flexible Dreams

Let's Break the Money Talk Taboo

Listening as a Friend

My Conducting Year

On Not Composing

The Perks of Having a Newsletter

Seasons and Spirals

Think Like a Composer

Watching TV at Copland House

When Everything Utterly Sucks

Why I'm Not Getting a Doctorate

short fiction

Failbetter

The Saturday Evening Post

The Disappearance of Madge Threshelm

Falling Triptych

Tupelo Quarterly

In-Home Hauntings

New Delta Review

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