Earth-Shattering News!
Donna O’Donnell Figurski just got the best birthday/Christmas present ever. Right between the two special days, Donna received a contract for her memoir, Prisoners Without Bars: A CAREGIVER’S TALE. The Continue Reading →
Month: December 2017
Martha Moffett Receives Novella Award
Martha Moffett won the William Faulkner 2017 novella award and went to New Orleans to collect her Faulkner Society prize and eat oysters and beignets (not at the same time). Continue Reading →
My Bellevue
by Rose Blessing Today, the floor-to-ceiling window of my 17th floor apartment frames a curvy horizon of pointy pine trees that gently stitch themselves into the sky as they blanket Continue Reading →
Collaborative Writing Projects
by Hank Quense I’ve never collaborated with another writer on a project and I don’t have any idea about how it would work. My ignorance brings up several questions: * Continue Reading →
Relax and Let Go
by Ellen Bedrosian I recently attended a workshop given by Mark Nepo to celebrate the publication of his latest book Things That Join the Sea and the Sky: Field Notes Continue Reading →
The Grama Queen
by Bonnie Smiler “Comma, comma, comma, comma, com, comma, comma, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah . . . “ (with apologies to Jimmy Jones singing “Handyman” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVyBRdBVCiU) Have you Continue Reading →
Some Writing Advice That Was Easy To Take
by Ethel Lee-Miller Most writing advice that I’ve put to good use has had to be of the kind that made me say, “Yeah I can see myself doing that.” Continue Reading →
Platform Building
by Karin Abarbanel “There is a time when you have your artist’s hat on and a time when you have your seller hat, your professional hat on…Platforming and branding amplify Continue Reading →