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Keep Your Pen Moving: On the Importance of Writing to Prompts
“If you write every day, the next day ideas have bubbled up from someplace that you had no idea was there.” -Walter Mosley How do we write every day? Like […]
Coaching, Editing & Mentoring, Oh My!
EDITING While we pride ourselves on our wonderful and plentiful workshops here at Westport Writers’ Workshop, some writers come to us looking to work with an instructor one-on-one. Our goal […]
Five Questions with Nicole
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I’ve known vaguely that I wanted to be a writer about as long as my memories go back, but […]
Five Questions with Soon Wiley
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I started writing before I knew I wanted to be a writer. I was studying abroad in Germany as […]
Five Questions with Kate Montgomery
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? As a child, I’d entertain myself for hours drawing pictures of people and making up stories to go with […]
How Do I Know Which Workshop To Take?
We get this question a lot, which is completely understandable! When I first stumbled upon this wonderful organization, I had the same question. We understand that we have a lot […]
Five Questions About Our Mentoring Program
1.) How is the mentoring program different from editing and coaching? The mentoring program includes the best elements of a semester of an MFA program. Besides one-on-one instructor time, mentoring […]
Five Questions with Shanna Melton
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I’ve been creative writing since I learned how to write. My mother kept so many of my stories and […]
Five Questions with Patricia Dunn
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I was ten and my teacher picked my holiday poem for the P.S. 71 yearbook. To create something people […]
Wisdom of the Ages: Knowing and Growing Your Characters’ Knowledge
One of the joys of writing is when we become so immersed in creating the world of our story that we forget we’re working. But we can’t afford to check […]
Five Questions with Adele Annesi
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I was eight and journaling and writing bad poetry. I didn’t think then about “being a writer”; I just […]
Meet Our Summer Intern, Meryl!
My name is Meryl Kaduboski and I am a rising junior at Wake Forest University. I am working toward a double major in mathematical statistics and psychology. My love of […]
Five Questions with Lelah Baker-Rabe
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Like a lot of writers, I’ve been writing since I was a kid. I came up with my first […]
Five Questions with Amanda Parrish Morgan
**Take our Personal Essay workshop with Amanda this Summer! 1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I wanted to be a writer from a really young […]
Why Workshops?
“The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.” -ANNIE DILLARD I’m a horrible saleswoman. Just ask […]
Five Questions with Christine Kalafus
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? It never occurred to me. I wanted to be a gymnast like Nadia Comaneci, then a prima ballerina like […]
Five Questions with Ellyn Gelman
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I think I have always wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t have the courage until I took […]
Five Questions with Mike Belanger
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I wish I could point to a moment: Back in high school, furiously reading Slaughterhouse-Five or Catch-22, some classic […]
Five Questions with Alana Sanko
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I am one of those people who knew very young. It was always my dream, going back to elementary […]
Five Questions with Valerie Bolling
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I’ve always been a writer. I never really thought much about it; it’s just one of those qualities at […]
Five Questions with Suzanne Farrell Smith
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I know exactly when. On Saturday, June 16, 2007, as an airport shuttle 2) What do you love most […]
Five Questions with Rahla Xenopoulos
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? As a high school dropout who suffered from severe dyslexia, I never dreamed of writing. It seemed lofty and […]
Five Questions with Jessica McEntee
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I can’t isolate a single ‘aha’ moment. I felt I was always going to be a writer. 2) What […]
A Writing Prompt For Your Weekend
In a writing slump? Need a little nudge, a kiss of inspiration? Enjoy this prompt from our Advanced Fiction instructor from Chris Belden: Ashtray by Marcus Jackson Filling with my […]
The Happy Pandemic Hurricane Holiday
by Billie Magnuson Ever since the Hurricane struck Connecticut, I find myself observing how everything could be way worse and everything could be way better. Without power there is nobody […]
On Book Towers and Reading as Writers
I recently came across an image like this one on Twitter with the caption “If you have a book tower, you’re probably a writer.” A few weeks later I watched […]
Highlights from our Holiday Panel
Cut corners. Order in food. Brush the crumbs under the carpet. -Christine Pakkala We gathered last night for a wonderful panel on how to write during these busy times. In […]