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’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 [...]
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 [...]
North Carolina Author Katey Schultz Named Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards Close on the heels of her recent Foreword INDIES Book of the Year recognition, Loyola University [...]
Hang with me for this one, readers, because I’ve been holding my tongue on this topic for far too long. I’m going to come at you with a lot of don’ts right up front, but I promise that by the end [...]
North Carolina Author Katey Schultz Wins 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award June 22, 2020—Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press is pleased to announce that Katey [...]
I first started teaching about the “creative imagination” and the “technical imagination” after reading Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook. In short, Vandermeer explains, the creative imagination is [...]