Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Kasie Whitener In swimming, an IM’er is a well-rounded athlete. “IM” is Individual Medley and the event means the swimmer races al...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com www.thearthousemovie.webs.com                                       In Italy there are ...

By Jodie Cain Smith John Hughes wrote The Breakfast Club in two nights. July 4 – 5, 1982, must have been electric, caffeinated, per...

By Mike Long I think ‘bad’ reviews fall into two distinctly different categories. What most non-writers think of as bad reviews are t...

By Olga Agafanova A story I heard on the radio the other day made me think about how many people have resigned themselves to muddling...

By Kasie Whitener   “So there’s this fight scene,” Cayce says from across the table. “And I’m wondering if the sequence seems realist...

By Bonnie Stanard Lorrie Moore wrote an engaging article about the True Detective television series in the New York Review of Books ...

By Jodie Cain Smith My first phone conversation with the Director of Public Relations for my local library system surprised me. I intr...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com www.thearthousemovie.webs.com                                       There is so much to...

By Kasie Whitener I hate magical realism. It’s deceptive. It uses modernisms like cars and airports and government incompetence to ma...

By Olga Agafonova Certain kinds of music conjure up entire cinematic sequences in my mind and I’d like to share a few of these compos...

By Mike Long Actually, let’s NOT be Frank, at least not until we’re forced to.  See, Frank is my closest friend, and Frank is fighti...

By Laura P. Valtorta www.gattafilms.com www.vimeo.com/ondemand/disability My writers’ group (SCWW Columbia II) is filled with a b...

By Brian Barr Sometimes, the flow to write is so automatic for me. I can type until my fingers turn blue. This strong passion to get a ...

By Kasie Whitener It’s Women’s History Month which always feels sort of bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s great to spend time thinki...

By Jodie Cain Smith   With the onset of each year, I begin a new reading challenge. Last year, I promised to read and review one frie...

By Rex Hurst In classic drama the term foil refers to a character which is created for the sole purpose of accenting a quality in a ...

By Kasie Whitener First-person point of view comes most naturally to me. Most of what I write is a character inside me trying to brea...