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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 [...]

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 [...]