Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Fred Fields Standard advice to a writer is to write about what we know. A familiar event in all our lives is the death of a friend or fam...

By Ginny Padgett Even though I consider myself a veteran writer, I have just been published for the first time under my own name in the Peti...

By Monet Jones Many thousands of years ago, or so it seems, I graduated from Hannah High School. My graduating class consisted of twenty-one...

By Mayowa Atte Not that kind of gut. I am talking about that other writer’s gut. The writer’s instinct. Among all the skills and talents a w...

By Deborah Wright Yoho As a writer, I feel buffeted by the pressures of globalization. Ever since I read Thomas Friedman’s iconic books on t...

By Ilmars Birznieks Repeatedly educators and parents in our country question the relevancy of foreign languages in schools. Their argument i...

By Monet M. Jones As I approach the nether years of life, I have learned that the best way to garden is to let my son do it while I give him...

By Janie Kronk “You learn a lot about where you’re from by learning about someplace new.” These words were spoken to me by my boss in Ohio,...

By Ginny Padgett I have an embarrassing condition…submission anxiety. I revealed my secret to a couple of my fellow workshoppers, and they s...

By Celinda Barefield So, here it is, New Year's Eve. I’m sitting here thinking about the year to come and everything that happened in 20...

By David Sennema Call me crazy, eccentric, or an old fuddy-duddy if you want, but I've got a problem with people who write verse or ads ...

By Beth Cotten Many years ago when I was in high school, I wrote a poem that was chosen to be published in an annual review of high school s...