Columbia Writers' Workshop II

By Raegan Teller If you’ve read my previous blog posts, you know I’ve refocused my attention on writing and studying short fiction for the n...

By Kasie Whitener I don’t get nervous for Zoom events even when I’m hosting them. I pour a glass of wine and tuck my pajama’d legs underneat...

By Bonnie Stanard Magical realism (MR) incorporates the unbelievable into the world as we know it. In other words, we writers convince read...

By Sharon May “I’ve just finished my novel. Do I need to revise it?” asks one more person on an online writing forum. I know where the inqu...

B y El Ochiis I had an English professor who was considered an eccentric by New York standards;  he collected shopping bags. His position wa...

Meet a New Columbia II Writer LIS ANNA-LANGSTON  Lis Anna-Langston was raised along the winding current of the Mississippi River on a steady...

By Lis Anna-Langston My third year at a Creative and Performing Arts School, I came to a crossroads. Home was chaotic and I took up study at...

By Kasie Witener I like the sex in the story. I read romance novels almost exclusively and I’m not embarrassed to say I like the sex scenes...

  By Sharon Ewing Writing a historical fiction novel about a real or imagined person becomes a journey of telling someone else’s story.  I u...

By Jodie Cain Smith Yes, this is a marketing post. We all know that authors must market. The hustle is part of the job, but the marketing ...

By El Ochiis Some of the greatest literary writers wrote philosophical fiction. I took a philosophy course in Athens , in college; actuall...

By Bonnie Stanard   There are those of us who call ourselves writers based not on the number of books we have written or sold but on the h...

By Kasie Whitener   When I joined the My Name is Not Bob Writers Platform Challenge in 2012, I had no idea what I would even tell people abo...

By Raegan Teller My introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) was the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the story, HAL is an AI compu...

By Sharon Ewing I’ve always been an avid reader beginning with picture books, illustrated classics, fairy tales, and even textbooks. As a ...

By El Ochiis Chapters tend to get little, if any, respect, yet, for most writers, they are a non-negotiable part of the novel-reading expe...

By Sharon May We all have those moments when a jolt of inspiration infuses our writing. A conversation had or overheard, a book read, a sun...

By Kasie Whitener My characters are real to me and I think I’ve written them authentically. But how can I know for sure? My own friendship...

By Raegan Teller \In a blog post I wrote nearly three years ago, “ In Praise of Short Fiction ,” I committed to honing my short fiction ski...

B y El Ochiis The great writers begin their stories with a killer hook which migrates into distinct blocks of text which section out a large...