The Writing Life

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]