The Writing Life

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 [...]

  With Airstream Dispatches kicking off last Sunday for our first webinar, I thought I’d share a few of the guest posts I’ve written from around the web. All of these have a [...]

Two weeks ago, as calendars flipped from August to September and many of us (in this hemisphere, at any rate) readied for fall clothes and back to school schedules, I took a two-night retreat [...]

  Originally published in War, Literature & the Arts. “I remember walking the flag-lined streets of that tiny town in the Berkshire Mountains. I remember the empty grocery store [...]