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One of my goals this summer was to read Alice Munro's Selected Stories in sequential order, to get a better feel for her evolution as ...

If it hadn’t been for The Sun magazine, I probably would never have met Amy Bonaccorso—Amy and I joined the same Sun discussion group a co...

I’d never thought about writing a children’s picture book until I heard Pam Smallcomb speak at a SCBWI -sponsored ABC (Author Book Club) e...

I met Nan Chase more than two decades ago, shortly after I’d moved to Boone, N.C., to run one of the Winston-Salem Journal’s Northwest burea...

During recent bouts of insomnia, I've been reading through Alice Munro's Selected Stories. Unfortunately, the stories don't put ...

A few weeks into my first English literature class in college, I raised my hand one day and naively asked the professor if D.H. Lawrence had...

Dustin Beall Smith has been many things—a skydiver (in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Smith helped pioneer sport parachuting in the United ...

Perhaps it was ironic—or appropriate—that I read from The Collected Stories of John Cheever during my train ride yesterday morning to a Fla...

I was reminded of Thomas Wolfe—specifically, Look Homeward, Angel— while reading the short story "Bible" by Tobias Wolff the other...

Mary Amato is a Maryland writer who writes children’s books and teaches workshops on writing for children at the Writers Center in Bethesda ...

I met Barry Yeoman when we were both reporters in North Carolina. I was running the Winston-Salem Journal ’s one-woman bureau office in Boon...

Last week I put a quote temporarily in this blog's header: "The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get bac...

As a first step toward getting over my increasing inability to submit my writing to outside publications, I took a workshop on Publishing fo...

I took a workshop on Flash Fiction yesterday with C.M. Mayo at the Writers Center in Bethesda. Two of the web sites she recommended were: • ...