When I Can
BY SUZANNE FARRELL SMITH At my first grad school program, my inaugural class was a writing-heavy course on cultural criticism, co-taught by a famous, cantankerous, prolific author. He told us, […]
A Story Scavenger
BY BARBARA JOSSELSOHN Not too long ago, my family and I took a week-long vacation to Sonoma. The weather was glorious, and eager to spend lots of time outdoors, I […]
Weight of Our Wheels
BY MADDIE EVANS* WEIGHT OF OUR WHEELS Amid the humid blur of fleeting days And the renaissance of fluorescent blooms among naked limbs My solace is found within the ever […]
5 Reasons You Might Want to Self-Publish Your Book and 1 Reason You Might Not
BY LIBBY WATERFORD Self-publishing has become easier and more accepted than ever, but there are still many authors who are uncertain about taking the plunge. After being initially published by […]
Every Sun Sets
BY CHRIS ALTROCK From ages seven through ten, my twin brother Craig and I spent the dying moments of each daylight on our living room couch. In front of us […]
What is 500 Words of Summer?
BY LIZ MATTHEWS Inspired by National Novel Writing month a.k.a. NaNoWriMo (which challenges writers to write 50,000 words during the month of November), and Jami Attenberg’s 1,000 words of summer […]
Under the Marula and the Oak: Writing Between Two Landscapes
BY ELISE CHIDLEY Three miles on a dusty, bone-rattling road to school. When the potholes punched holes in the tires, we would pull over. My mother, with her long red […]
Hot to Go: Metaphors, Music & Motherhood
By Amanda Parrish Morgan April is National Poetry Month, and every year to mark the occasion, my kids’ elementary school does a poetry unit. I wish there were more opportunities […]
How to Get More Words on the Page
by Libby Waterford “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” –Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Writers are notorious procrastinators. We’ll find any number of […]
Five Questions with Blake Schnirring about Blake’s Books!
1. Have you always been an avid reader? My mother began reading to me from a very early age. I loved books and how you could escape into them. There are so […]
Celebrating our 20th: An Interview with long-time fiction instructor, Chris Belden
1. How long have you been teaching with WWW and what was your first workshop? My memory is ominously spotty, but I think I started at WWW somewhere around 2013 […]
From Freewrite to Final Draft
In our workshops, we discuss: freewriting, the craft of writing, revising/editing, and how and where to submit, but usually not at once! Many writers join our community with a few […]
What is (a) Hybrid?
Is it part fiction writer and part poet? Is it part screenwriter and party memoirist? Or is it an AI-generated robot who can write all genres simultaneously? Well maybe the […]
Five Questions with our new Instructor, Cara Wall
Meet our new instructor, Cara Wall. What’s your favorite book and why? I like long, character driven novels I can sink into, like The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth […]
Five Questions with Diane Parrish
1. Why did you decide to attend the conference? I had a finished novel that had not attracted the attention of an agent or publisher and so I decided to […]
What is Flash?
Flash is prose that is typically 1,000 words or less. The craft of writing flash shares many techniques with writing poetry, including a focus on language, imagery, and resonance. You […]
Break Writers Block With a Few Simple Steps
When writers say they can’t write, they usually mean they’re afraid to write or they just don’t want to. The reasons vary. We may not know where or how to […]
Five Questions with Joanna Simmons
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? When I was 7 I saw the movie, Home Alone in the movie theater. I was completely transported by […]