Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Shaun McCoy Sometimes you want to sneak up on your reader. You stay carefully understated as you suck them into your narrative, inch by i...

By Amanda Simays Recently at the middle school where I work, my fellow volunteers and I started after-school clubs — Hip Hop Aerobics, Photo...

By Alex Raley My twelve-year-old grandson just finished a workshop in creative writing as a part of the University of South Carolina'...

By Mayowa Atte Late at night, when sleep refuses my entreaties, I ask myself; what must I do to write the Truth? What must I do to write it ...

By Bonnie Stanard Earlier this month six of us from Columbia II got together to critique our submissions to agents and/or publishers. Though...

By Lisa Lopez Snyder I recently discovered the lyric essay, which, as The Seneca Review defined it in 1997, is a “sub-genre that straddles t...

By Celinda Barefield Now you have a book on how to write. The question becomes, how do I apply it to my writing? This can be seen as a downe...

By Shann Fountain Culo I suppose it’s my background as a travel writer but I love settings. I’ve also been known to love a movie mostly for...

By David Sennema As a barbershop quartet singer one of my favorite things to do is what barbershoppers call “woodshedding” a song. No printe...

By Celinda Barefield Lately as I have been in the middle of a writer’s block, one question has been plaguing my mind. How do you write somet...

By Marissa Burt I recently saw an interview with a well known actor who described this approach to his film roles: for each take of a scene,...

By Janie Kronk Need a new perspective on what all those hours at the keyboard mean? Check out Malcom Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers . Alth...

By Ginny Padgett When our writer’s group gathers every few months for a social evening, three standards mark the meeting: 1) good food; 2) c...

Last week the Columbia II Writers Workshop group met for a social evening. It is our custom to devise some sort of game that involves our wr...

By Tiem Wilson You’ve probably heard the saying, “Writers write.” Or, you’ve heard the advice that you should write everyday. Well, how do y...