Columbia Writers' Workshop II

JANIE KRONK Janie lives with her husband and daughter in Columbia, South Carolina, where she has enjoyed the camaraderie and critiques...

By Janie Kronk Bonnie Friedman's Writing Past Dark is not a new book. It was published 20 years ago, but its content remains ...

By Len Lawson I submitted a poetry manuscript to a highly coveted university press. Six months later I received its response: a rej...

By Mike Long   So, after my last blog on my love of writers’ conferences, I should offer an update for some balance. Mary and I recen...

  By Fred Fields To my mind, there are two types of writers, those who write for their own pleasure, and those who want to be read an...

By Jodie Cain Smith It was that time of year again, that magical season when one hundred or so writers gather with a select faculty to ...

By Kimberly Johnson Last Saturday afternoon I closed the last chapter on William Broad’s defiant Dancing With Myself . This dude was...

    By Laura P. Valtorta Oaxaca , Mexico , October 8, 2014. There are hundreds of film festivals open to Americans these days...

By Bonnie Stanard Just when I thought I had some idea of point of view (POV), I read a story that has me scratching my head. I can he...

By Mike Long   I joined Western Writers of America (WWA) in 2010, shortly after publishing No Good Like It Is through Createspace....

By Len Lawson I have this process I go through whenever I write a new poem or a new chapter of a novel. After I gain inspiration from...

By Jodie Cain Smith Sylvia Plath, Margaret Mitchell, J.D. Salinger, Emily Bronte, and Jodie Cain Smith? Lord, I pray not! I kno...

By Kimberly Johnson I’m so annoyed that I could curse. Should I use curse words when developing dialogue when my main character and h...

By Leigh Stevenson In the academic world, the arts are habitually lumped together in a rather generic category labeled 'Creative En...

By Kimberly Johnson Fahgeddaboutit if you eavesdropped on Tony Soprano’s plot to whack a rival mobster. Ain’t nothing goin’ on now...

By Len Lawson If you meander around any writing circles long enough, eventually you will hear the buzz word muse . What is it exactly...

By Marion Aldridge At some point in my life, I discovered I was a better writer than I was a preacher. Writing is an extension of, ...

By Laura P. Valtorta Last week I was editing the English subtitles for a new Indian screenwriter named Amit Mehra, from Mumbai. His n...

By Chris Mathews One of the most important but overused tools in the writer’s pouch is the flashback. Although fla...

By Jodie Cain Smith I’m aggravated. Something isn’t right. In fact, this is all wrong. I should be typing away at my desk, surrou...