Recent Spotlights

Sheila Bender: A Writer’s Life

by Carol Smallwood Sheila Bender is the author of “Creative Writing DeMystified,” “A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief,” a memoir, and “Behind Us the Way Grows Wider,” a poetry collection. She teaches online at WritingItReal.com, StoryCircleNetwork.org and WOW! Women On Writing. Tell us about your…

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Talking Writing with Dee Dee M. Scott

Award-winning playwright and author Dee Dee M. Scott, is also a screenwriter, publisher, producer and director. She is the author of the bestselling book, “My Husband’s Woman,” which she later adapted to the stage. A full list of her books can be found here. Have you always written? Yes. I…

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Talking Craft and Inspiration with Award-winning Memoirist Katherine Mayfield

by Carol Smallwood Katherine Mayfield is the author of the award-winning memoir, “The Box of Daughter,” “The Meandering Muse,” and numerous other books. An editor for more than 20 years, she’s now the publisher and editor of a quarterly literary magazine, The Maine Review. She teaches memoir writing in Maine,…

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