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2021 Right to Write Award Recipient: Lucille Freeman ​​“One of my fellow writing friends asked me what inspires me to write when I don’t especially feel like picking up pen and paper. My answer [...]

It’s nearly Solstice. As an artist, I celebrate long-light days by turning away from screens, toward an immersive summer of nature, writing, reading, and parenting. I don’t intend to reach out [...]

Landis Wade and I talk about what it means to write horribly wrong in order to establish discernment and competence in our prose. Listen to the Charlotte Readers Podcast as I talk about the [...]

Women Fiction Writers Association featured my debut novel, Still Come Home. Honored to be interviewed by Maggie Smith on the Hear Us Roar podcast where we talk about research, sentence structure, [...]

Here’s a hard truth many artists don’t want to admit: Since becoming a mother, I have rarely been able to revisit the level of creative immersion I maintained before my son was born. BUT, [...]

Sandra Colbert, an author and board member of the Chicago Writers Association, will interview CWA Book of the Year Award winners Katey Schultz and Mary Sollinger on Friday, March 19, 2021, at [...]

I recently chatted with a published author who shared “I’ve published a book and understand my process but feel so disconnected from who that writer was. I’m starting to doubt the value and [...]

As many of you know, ITF is my signature, 5-week, online flash form writing class that has been a tremendous source of joy and creativity for me, for seven years. This year, I cannot teach this [...]

River danced, I cried and cheered and cut herbed scones into wedges. What a transformational Inauguration Day, which is impossible to sum up except to say that if I was writing flash nonfiction [...]

I extend my sincerest thanks to the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, as well as the Historical Book Club of North Carolina, for awarding my novel, Still Come Home, the Sir [...]