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All week long I’ve been able to feel my mind expanding. Interlochen hosted its annual Future of Cinema Film Festival this week. There is much overlap between writing and motion picture arts, so [...]

Last week I drove to the local VFW (Veteran’s of Foreign Wars) to meet an active-duty NCO in the National Guard. He served in Afghanistan from 2006-2007 and agreed to meet with me to discuss [...]

I recently composed a “letter of interest” for a residency application and part of my essay seems worth sharing here: A writer’s work is never wholly solitary. While the image of a paper-ridden [...]

Residencies: No from Wurlizter Foundation (3-month residency in Taos, NM). Nearing the final decisions from Fishtrap 2011 WIR position and I’m still in the running (eastern Oregon). Re-applied to [...]

As soon as I got up there, all my nervousness dissipated. What a relief! I felt comfortable at the podium—imagine that! Now all I have to do is get better at not bringing on fits of anxiousness [...]

Of course, my third visit comes from Leon Hammerhead, who calls me up and takes me out to drinks at the Hofbrau just down the road. He knows all the servers and is surprised to see that I do too. [...]

My second mentor comes to me in the best possible way: Monday afternoon, my day off, a phone call and invitation to go find the Sleeping Bear of Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes. This from poet goddess [...]

At the last moment, a triumverate of advisors come to my rescue. Over the next few days, I’ll write about the 3 writing gods and goddesses who chimed their sage advice in my ears before my public [...]

Public Reading on Thursday, April 29th at 7:30 p.m. The Writing House, Interlochen Arts Academy    Katey Schultz will read from Ways of Light, her in-progress collection of short [...]

[One-thousand thank you’s to the inventors of the pharmacy-grade mold-your-own night guards for those of us who grind our teeth. I woke up this morning for the first time in a week without a [...]