Why My Son Stopped Playing Fortnite
February 17th, 2022 | by Chanel Brenner
On the morning of April 1, 2019, I walked into our kitchen and found my ten-year-old son Desmond’s Xbox on
About Chanel Brenner
Chanel Brenner
Chanel Brenner is the winner of the 2021 Press 53 Award for Poetry for Smile or Else. She is the author of Vanilla Milk: a memoir told in poems (Silver Birch Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the 2016 Independent Book Awards and honorable mention in the 2014 Eric Hoffer awards. Her work has appeared in HerStry, Modern Loss, The Good Men Project, The Coachella Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Barrow Street, Salamander, Spoon River Poetry Review, Literary Mama, and others. Her poem “July 28th” won first prize in The Write Place At the Write Time’s contest, judged by Ellen Bass, and her poem “Apology” won first place in the Smartish Pace Beullah Rose Poetry Prize. In 2018, she was nominated for Best of the Net.