Fall fiction workshops
Hey there, I hope your summer is off to a good start! I know we’re barely into July, but it’s already time to start thinking about fall writing workshops. First up, something new for me: I’ve joined the faculty of …
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Fall Novel Workshops
Hey folks, I hope that your summer is going well! I’ve been working with some great writers in coaching sessions and manuscript consultations, and will now take August off to focus exclusively on my own projects and to absolutely glut …
Workshops, manuscript consultations, coaching, and the angst of promotional emails in politically fucked-up times
I sent the following email to my teaching, consulting, and coaching mailing list this morning. I suspect that it might interest a number of you, as well, so am sharing it here. If you are on that list and also …
Writer, with Kids: Leesa Cross-Smith
Leesa Cross-Smith, author of Every Kiss a War and editor of WhiskeyPaper Age of kids: 10 and 8 What was your writing schedule like before kids, and how has that changed? Before I had my daughter, I was writing obituaries …
Writer, with Fetus: Courtney Elizabeth Mauk
Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, author of Orion’s Daughters and Spark What is your writing schedule like now, and how do you anticipate it will change when the baby is born? For years I’ve been very fortunate, teaching part-time with a lot …
Writer, with Kids: Benjamin Parzybok
Benjamin Parzybok, author of: Couch, Sherwood Nation Age of kids: 7 (girl) and 10 (boy) What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Before kids, I did a thing which seems right …
Writer, with Kids: Elizabeth Heineman
Elizabeth Heineman, author of Ghostbelly: A Memoir (Feminist Press, 2014) Age of kids: And . . . here’s where it starts to get hard. 22 and 3? Or 22, 3, and the one who’d be going on 6 if he …
Writer, with Kids: Peter von Ziegesar
Peter von Ziegesar, author of The Looking Glass Brother: A Memoir Age of kids: 13, 16, 18 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Back when I didn’t have kids (it …
Writer, with Kids: Leah Bassoff
Leah Bassoff, author of: Lost Girl Found (Groundwood Books) along with a co-author, Laura Deluca Age of kids: 11 and 13 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Even before kids, …
Writer, with Kids: Amanda Miska
Amanda Miska, author of short stories and flash fiction in (or forthcoming from) Whiskey Paper, jmww, CHEAP POP, Buffalo Almanack, The Collapsar, Storychord, Five Quarterly, Cactus Heart, Cartridge Lit, Counterexample Poetics, Pea River Journal and elsewhere. Age of kids: 4.5 …