The Writing Life

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 [...]

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 [...]