Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Deborah Wright Yoho When I was growing up, Walter Cronkite's warm, reassuring voice on his nightly newscast greeted our fa...

By Kasie Whitener In October, at the SCWW Conference, I presented ten pages to a literary agent who represents the kind of work I’d d...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com The Danes have an adjective: tilbageholdende , which means “reluctant,” or “holding  back...

By Jodie Cain Smith I know, I know, in a perfect world we the writers would write, and they, the consumers, would consume without any...

By Bonnie Stanard In the ongoing disputes between Amazon and NY publishing houses, whose side am I on? Amazon and Hachette, the most ...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com Making films, especially documentaries, involves exploring the world and its surprises. I r...

By Mike Long A Facebook friend recently told me of an incident with a friend's husband. He was a dead ringer for Kenny Rogers, an...

By Meredith Kaiser Maya Angelou once said that when she prayed for someone, a wonderful thing happened, not only hopefully for the ...

Meet a New Columbia II Blogger KASIE WHITENER Dr. Kasie Whitener is a professional educator and fiction writer. She blogs about t...

By Kasie Whitener The top resolution every year is to lose weight. It’s not a coincidence that most of us feel like we’re carrying a ...

By Kimberly Johnson Unearthing viewers for my creative compositions can be like a looking for water in the Kalahari Desert —I contin...

By Jodie Cain Smith     All the critical elements of a successful launch party must be addressed before a single dime was sp...

By Jodie Cain Smith   Three months ago I attended Kim Boykin’s book launch party for Palmetto Moon , her second with Berkley Books out ...

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...