Airstream Dispatches (now registering!) is a worldwide book club for writers that provides innovative systems for accountability, useful to writers and book lovers alike. I’ve carefully [...]
I remember my first summer after graduating from Whitman College. Following four years of reading slow, heady texts by Kant and Cixous, Maimonides and Montaigne, I dove headlong into summer [...]
Airstream Dispatches (now registering!) is an innovative, low-pressure, online community for writers. We’ll study 6 books, gather for 6 webinars, & write through 6 prompts–all [...]
It’s summer and I’m busy trying not to be busy. In other words, I’m taking care of important tasks that got set aside during my prime teaching season, and there’s nothing [...]
I believe strongly in supporting and celebrating fellow authors, and that includes the writers who enroll in my Maximum Impact courses. Today is all about sharing the recent flash form writing [...]
Today I’m celebrating the work of esteemed author Pete Fromm, whose short stories, novels, and memoirs have won countless awards and are read across the globe. Pete’s writing always [...]
Helen Benedict is the first writer who told me I would have to find my own way in today’s publishing world. She said it kindly; with the intention to help. We were sharing a drink after a [...]
I was fortunate enough to call Jack Driscoll a mentor during graduate school at Pacific University. We’ve kept in touch for the past 11 years and he even met River last April when I was [...]
Today I’m celebrating short story and creative nonfiction author Patricia Ann McNair, who is not only an inspiration and friend, but also one of the most sincere, effective, deep-thinking [...]
As a part of Airstream Dispatches, 38 writers and I are spending September reading and celebrating the work of author Ann Pancake. I reached out to her for an interview, and here’s what she [...]