Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Sharon May   We hear (or say) that all the time. Just what we’ve been looking for. We savor the moment, and then realize someone else alr...

By Ruth P. Saunders Creative nonfiction is factually based, and in contrast to other styles of nonfiction, should  engage the reader through...

b y   El Ochiis I had had a traumatic experience as a young college student, one that drastically impacted my writing life. For some time, I...

By Kasie Whitener   This past Thursday was #PitMad. Not sure what language that is? It’s Twitter speak and the “#” is called a “hashtag . ” ...

  By Bonnie Stanard   Can’t live with it. Can’t live without it. Is a great relationship going bad?   We writers, ignored by NYC’s legacy pu...

By Sharon May To learn about using social media as a writer, I started following some writing groups on Facebook and Instagram. On one group...

By Jerry D Pate   In his Fiction Writing Master Class, William Cane encourages new writers to copy the styles of various writers until they ...

By Shaun McCoy   We huddled around the table, shoulders hunched, our faces hovering over heaping plates of pad thai and panang curry. It was...

By Kasie Whitener   The first question in the exercise is, “Who are you?” and while it’s only three words, the question is a really big one....

By Raegan Teller Creative types talk about having a muse, and I used to wonder what they meant. Is a muse an actual person? In Greek ...

By Sharon May I imagine professional writers sitting for long hours each day, pounding out words. Actually, most writers have other obliga...

By Bonnie Stanard The Plum Tree Tavern   publishes poetry that focuses on “ specific images of physical nature...[which are] preferre...

By Kasie Whitener I just delivered a “ Fan Fictions Basics ”  class on Outschool wherein I told three tween girls to think about a sp...