Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Bonnie Stanard At workshop we critics often disagree about what makes good/bad writing. Some of us defend poor grammar and punctua...

By Jodie Cain Smith  Unless you want your book to die a lonely, dusty death, rotting on the shelf until the pages decompose, selling yo...

By Kimberly Johnson Uncle Sunny done it. The Frank Sinatra-singing Lothario choked the life out of the old ladies with Venetian bli...

By Ginny Padgett The SCWW website has some great advantages for members beyond general information and conference registration. ...

By Laura P. Valtorta Boubacar Traore. Amadou and Miriam. Tinariwen. Sure, the Malian music playing at our house is cool and helps me wr...

By Kimberly Johnson Best Supporting Actress Lupita Nyong’o wore a gown at the Oscars that fashionistas are still talking about.   ...

By Bonnie Stanard As a writer of historical fiction, I am disturbed by Andrew Delbanco’s claim that a novelist using historical charact...

By Fred Fields  Writing is a more difficult task than neophytes imagine. Getting "A" on your essay in 12 th grade English is ...

By Laura P. Valtorta Screen writing involves more collaboration than writing a novel or a poem. To be serious at all, the writer need...

By Jodie Cain Smith   Without a shred of scientific evidence, I proclaim that any writer who says he or she does not struggle on occa...

By Kimberly Johnson  Last Saturday, I forked over $5.50 to see People magazine’s 2011 Sexiest Man Alive and an Oscar-winner run con ...

By Mike Long                                                I’ve been fortunate enough to have three short stories selected for publ...

Marion Aldridge Write! Write. Whatever it takes to write, do it. Turn off the television set. Get up early. Go to a coffee shop...

By Jodie Cain Smith I learned the rule “honor the playwright” early in my formal acting training and quickly became an actor who never ...

By Bonnie Stanard This morning as I was eating cereal and reading an article in The New York Review of Books , it came to me that one...

By Sarah Herlong It dawned on me recently that I wasn’t doing enough with my writing. I was concentrating on upping my writing hours an...

By Laura P. Valtorta The doors of the Columbiana Grande cinema went “whoosh” as the renowned movie critic, Laura P. Valtorta made her...

By  Marion Aldridge Current wisdom for writers and for many other professions is to find a niche market and focus. You can’t just write...

  By Jodie Cain Smith As 2013 draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on the last 12 months. I perfected the most flattering angle w...