Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Sharon Ewing   I don’t have an English degree and never took a journalism course, so I suspected writing my first novel might not be an e...

  By El Ochiis I once read an article about the “Ten Rules of Writing Fiction” and one of them was to never begin the story with the weathe...

By Bonnie Stanard American Book Review has posted online “ Top Forty Bad Books .”  However, this is not a list. Rather, numerous college pr...

By Kasie Whitener I’m a swimmer. I started early, as a four-year-old on the six-and-under squad of my neighborhood team. When people ask...

Over the summer, a couple months into quarantine, 8-year-old Rin Windshadow had a great idea: a magazine with art and stories inspired by na...

By El Ochiis “ What is fueling your character’s desire?” Drilled Elias Dillard of The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts , in London, ...

By Sharon May I have had a tough time writing a blog. In fact, I wrote half of one and trashed it. Figure if I was bored writing it, you’d ...

By Bonnie Stanard Yes, the word is humaning  but it’s new and I may not know how to use it. Among end-of-the-year lists are those that docum...

By Kasie Whitener   The buzz in this room isn’t the only one. Down the hall are two other artists, two more permanent works being stenciled ...

By El Ochiis I was studying abroad when an opportunity to intern at a publishing house, presented itself in the form of a requirement from a...

By Shaun McCoy Perhaps the single most fabulous piece of advice, and simultaneously the worst advice, I’ve ever gotten about writing is that...

By Raegan Teller A conversation circulating among writers lately is whether to mention the pandemic in their stories set in current times. S...

By Sharon May   Imagine me with one joint recovering from surgery and another one prepping for surgery. My right arm braced in Velcro and Ne...

By Kasie Whitener   Hello, again, from my November madness. I’ve been NaNoWriMo-ing since the start of the month when I wrote this cheerful,...