The Writing Life

Essay: Dear fellow writers and friends: Last month, I took a creative and entrepreneurial risk, bringing my values loud-and-proud into my newsletter by announcing WRITEABILITY and the Right to [...]

For the past five years, I have been studying and experimenting as an entrepreneur, alongside my efforts as an author and mentor. Most of this work has been behind the scenes, though some of you [...]

2021 Right to Write Award Recipient: Ingrid L. Taylor Ingrid Taylor lives in Las Vegas, NV Ingrid’s statement: “As a writer and veterinarian, my work often centers on questions of our [...]

2021 Right to Write Award Recipient: Lucille Freeman ​​“One of my fellow writing friends asked me what inspires me to write when I don’t especially feel like picking up pen and paper. My answer [...]

It’s nearly Solstice. As an artist, I celebrate long-light days by turning away from screens, toward an immersive summer of nature, writing, reading, and parenting. I don’t intend to reach out [...]

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 [...]