Elaine Schmitz invites you to visit her new website: www.elaineschmitz-writer.com While you're there, please visit her blog and comment, if the spirit moves you. … [Read more...] about Elaine Schmitz Launces Website
LaDonna Fehlberg Published
This is the fifth year LaDonna Fehlberg has had works published in the Los Positas College Anthology. This year the poems "Talisman Rose," "House Reminiscing," "Montana Traveler" and photographs "If" and "Window" appear in the publication. … [Read more...] about LaDonna Fehlberg Published
Plucked from Air and Error: Finding the Poem That Waits to be Written
Poet Kathleen Lynch is known for her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary and has written moving poems on such topics as crabgrass and breakfast. She will discuss finding sources of inspiration, even in the mundane details of everyday life; using humor in poetry; and the process of writing a poem from the original idea to revision and the final product. Ms. Lynch … [Read more...] about Plucked from Air and Error: Finding the Poem That Waits to be Written
Putting It Out There
What do writing and wishing have in common? Plenty, according to Noelle Oxenhandler, our February speaker and author of the memoir, The Wishing Year. Part memoir, part history, and part metaphysical journey, The Wishing Year is Oxenhandler's chronicle of her year of putting it out there, a concept familiar to writers who experience their own version of putting it out there each … [Read more...] about Putting It Out There
The Long and the Short of Writing an Award-Winning Novel
How long does it take to write an award-winning novel? One year? Ten? Alice Wilson-Fried spent seven years crafting her debut novel, Outside Child. Laurel Anne Hill wrote her award-winning Heroes Arise in seven months. Were these authors' successful approaches to writing different, or the same? Laurel Ann Hill grew up in San Francisco, with more dreams of adventure than good … [Read more...] about The Long and the Short of Writing an Award-Winning Novel
