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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 [...]

Two weeks ago, as calendars flipped from August to September and many of us (in this hemisphere, at any rate) readied for fall clothes and back to school schedules, I took a two-night retreat [...]

  Originally published in War, Literature & the Arts. “I remember walking the flag-lined streets of that tiny town in the Berkshire Mountains. I remember the empty grocery store [...]

Airstream Dispatches (now registering!), we are going to study 6 books, gather for 6 webinars & write our way through 6 prompts. This community, made up of writers and book lovers across the [...]