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Years ago, my uncle sent me Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several Short Sentences About Writing. Although it is designed to help students trained in academic writing “un-do” inhibiting habits learned over [...]

It was my absolute honor and pleasure to interview Claire Davis, author of Season of the Snake, Labors of the Heart, and Winter Range Airstream Dispatches. My program read Labors of the Heart [...]

I’ve decided to call 2019 my Year of Experiments. Every other month, I’ll host a webinar adhering to the 3 Ps: play, practice, and presence. To me, that means we all promise to show [...]

I’ve decided to call 2019 my Year of Experiments. Every other month, I’ll host a webinar adhering to the 3 Ps: play, practice, and presence. My goal is to experiment with programming [...]

This month, Airstream Dispatches and Monthly Mentorship writers are reading Christine Maul Rice’s novel, Swarm Theory. Recent awards include Honorable Mention for Chicago Writers [...]

This month, Airstream Dispatches participants are reading The Answer to the Riddle is Me by David MacLean. The New York Times has described this book as “raw, honest and beautiful.” A memoir of [...]

Last weekend, Airstream Dispatches participants met for our first of 6 live webinars. Here’s a [partial!] screen shot from our lovely gathering, which includes 52 writers in 4 different [...]

  With Airstream Dispatches kicking off last Sunday for our first webinar, I thought I’d share a few of the guest posts I’ve written from around the web. All of these have a [...]

I first met Bonnie Jo Campbell when I was in graduate school at Pacific University, earning my MFA in Writing. Back then, I was still focused on creative nonfiction, and Bonnie Jo was soaring [...]

I believe that writing is a solo sport, but that at the end of the day, no one does it alone. Recently I had a Q & A with Lynn Lovegreen and one of the questions was “How can we be seen [...]