Columbia Writers' Workshop II

  By Leigh Stevenson We choose to write in a way that speaks to us. Fantasy, history, memoir, essay, fiction, non-fiction, Twitter, Face...

By Shaun McCoy If you're reading this, ironically, you're probably a writer. I've got to tell you, my brothers and sister...

By Amanda Simays My parents are moving out of the house they’ve lived in for twenty years. Which of my belongings do I discard, and which do...

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 I’ve been perusing the November/December, 2011 issue of Poets & Writers magazine. I am astonished to find the numerous ...

By Ginny Padgett Last week I attended my mother's family's Christmas get-together. There are six siblings; their parents have been g...

By Ginny Padgett Recently HBO aired a remake of Mildred Pierce as a mini-series, starring Kate Winslet. Many of you will recall the 1945 Jo...

By Deborah Wright Yoho At an age too young, striving to please my parents, teachers and peers, I lost myself. My writing is about finding my...

By Alex Raley I recently made a trip with folks who kept referring to me as “sir.” Most of the people were well past fifty years. This was a...

By Laura P. Valtorta During a recent disaster evacuation drill at Stanford University, all went awry. Workers and students were supposed to...

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 Ginny Padgett This blog spot is a great resource for aspiring writers, full of good counsel and information. Today I’d like to share a di...

By Mayowa Atte You have a story, a dollop of your inner pudding that you have decided to share with the world. You have outlines, notes, cha...

By Ginny Padgett Recently I saw a docu-drama based on the life of Georgia O’Keefe. Her Svengali cum husband, Alfred Stieglitz, delivered a l...

By Brian Butler How many times have you sat down to write with that blank receptacle before you and yet nothing to plug into it? A common oc...

By Bonnie Stanard This criticism goes to the question of creativity, especially as it applies to fiction. How can we produce writing that de...

By Laura P. Valtorta My mentor, a Jewish attorney, older than 90, five feet tall, with a hummingbird physique is planning to visit her fa...

By Leigh Stevenson People often ask writers where they get their inspiration and why they write. I will try to explain what it is for me. My...

By Deborah Wright Yoho Why would somebody like me want to write a memoir? After all, I don’t have any progeny wh...

By Alex Raley Faced with the frustrations of writing, I ask myself, "Why write?" Does anyone care that I write; aren't there ...