Columbia Writers' Workshop II

Meet a New Writer JESSICA ROBISON Jessica Robison teaches English in a local high school. Always an obsessive reader, Jessica has recently c...

By Jessica Robison Some people are writers. Some people are cool. Then there are the elite few that manage to write and be cool at the same ...

By Bonnie Stanard A good conference does more than remind us of the dos and don’ts of writing—it inspires us to renew our writing efforts. I...

By Mike Long A lot of people have asked why a stockbroker in South Carolina would chose to write fiction about Texans in the Civil War. Well...

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 Kimberly Johnson When I was in high school, I thought a muse for an artist or a writer was a zaftig, round-eyed lady lounging, semi-nude,...

Meet A New Writer SUZANNE ROBERTS I didn't begin writing until around a year ago when I retired. I had taught English as a Second Langua...

By Suzanne Roberts When you are searching for writing material, think about your childhood. Memories of your youth can supply a myriad of ev...

By Lisa Lopez Snyder I’m at that stage of revision where I’m taking workshop feedback on my short fiction and making decisions: Do I cut thi...

By Alex Raley I recently attended a lecture by Claudia Brinson, a senior lecturer in English at Columbia College. A journalist for 30 years...

Meet a New Writer COURTNEY DILES When Courtney Diles was seven years old, a teacher observed her imaginative tendencies and asked her mother...

By Courtney Diles Do you ever sit down at the computer and open up the document you were working on until two in the morning last night, onl...

By Debbie Yoho In the late '70s, I was lucky to participate in USC's First Draft of the Writing Project for teachers. The graduate ...

By David Sennema What do you have within arms’ reach besides your computer keyboard as you sit down to start working on a short story, novel...

By Mayowa Atte You: A swashbuckling western; a memoir ferrying readers down the rapids of memory; a lush romance; a knock-your-readers-on-t...

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 Lisa Lopez Snyder Earlier this week I got stuck in the mud. Over the holidays I started a story, and step by step I put my protagonist, “...

By Bonnie Stanard Thank goodness for the internet! It makes my search more focused and less time consuming. Even at that, I spend a lot of t...

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 ...