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Revision and play have been on my mind this month, as I work with my Monthly Mentee writers taking the deep dive into finding the sentences “hidden inside” the ones we’re making. So much of the [...]

I recently received the following question during a consult with a writer interested in Monthly Mentorship: I don’t have enough time in the day to consistently write and I feel weighed down by [...]

  I recently received the following question during a consult with a writer interested in Monthly Mentorship: I’m forever setting writing deadlines to get my writing done, but I don’t feel [...]

I’m a long-time advocate of using technology to build community and help writers feel supported. When COVID brought unforeseen changes and demands into all of our lives, I felt grateful that at [...]

In “Wait for Me,” a finalist for the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in fiction, Katey Schultz gives us a sensitive narrator, hurt by a rupture in his family, and a bullying neighbor girl, whose [...]

What matters about the above side-by-side photos is not that they’re blurry or that the handwriting is illegible. What matters is that eleven years ago I was still waitressing two shifts a week [...]

The Military Writers Society of America has awarded North Carolina author Katey Schultz a Silver Medal in Literary Fiction for her recent novel Still Come Home. This is the third win for Still [...]

Flashback and backstory are often taught as structural components of prose. They are. But knowing a craft tool definition is different from understanding its application. As they say, “knowing is [...]

In Monthly Mentorship, I support writers by teaching them how to apply thinking to language and integrate writing into their lives, sustainably. We begin by studying sample texts, with the idea [...]

Last month I went out on a limb, stating that workshopping your writing should be the exception in academic and continuing education writing classes—not the norm. I even went so far as to suggest [...]