by Pamela Holmes
I would develop a psychological picture of a woman who could be this brave and determined. I would create a portrait of a marriage that would sustain and support her obsession. I would answer the question for myself. Continue reading
by Peter Krass
One of my writing students, well into her 80s, was surprised that her stories, set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of the 1950s, held our workshop fascinated. “You’d really want to read more of this?” she asked skeptically. We did. Continue reading
by Jenn Stroud Rossmann
Even Proust didn’t sequester himself in his cork-lined room to write until he had, well, lost time to the parties and travels he turned into fiction. Continue reading
by Elizabeth Garber
After I had constructed my memoir, one of my mentors reassured me, “Don’t worry, your poetry is alive and well in your prose.” Continue reading
by Sonya Terjanian
Self actualization is by nature an inwardly-focused pursuit, but we must try to do it with our eyes open . . . understanding the origins of our opportunity, supporting others on the same journey, and lifting up those who weren’t born with the same privilege. Continue reading
by Ed Protzel
I wondered if there were some lost gems in these pages, some good ideas, some decent writing. I was a pretty intense, creative person when I was young. Maybe some of these early efforts could yet pay off. Continue reading
by Lisa Romeo
It’s a bit ridiculous that “What would Dad think?” would be the question to bother me, since the point of the book involved my learning more about my father after his death, wanting to discover for myself what he might have been thinking all those years before. Continue reading
