Five Questions with New Instructor, Kate Senecal
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I started writing stories when I was very young, maybe seven or eight, and when I was ten I […]
Five Questions with New Instructor, Martha Petersen
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I’ve been fascinated with words and stories as long as I can remember. When I was very young, maybe […]
Announcing the Jessica Speart Foundation Award
Last year we lost our very special instructor and friend Jessica Speart. Along with her successful career as a bestselling author, Jessica was trained at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, […]
Five Questions with Matt Ember
1. When did you know you wanted to get into film & television? High school. Seriously. I used to come home from practice (wrestling) and watch MASH reruns. 2. What […]
Five Questions with Elise Chidley
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I wrote (and stitched together) my first ‘book’ when I was about eight. It was a story about a […]
Five Questions With Westport Poet Laureate, Jessica McEntee
This past June, Westport’s inaugural Poet Laureate and friend of Westport Writers, Diane Lowman, officially passed the torch to our very own, Jessica McEntee. We recently sat down with Jessie […]
Meet New Orleans Poet Renard Boissiere
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Libby Waterford, Author of Thirteen Novels and Counting….
Writing Commercial and Upmarket Fiction Buy Now
Five Questions with SUSAN SHAPIRO BARASH
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I knew I wanted to be a writer when I was six years old and decided to write a […]
Executive Director Pat Dunn Invites You to Join Us for a Fabulous Fall!
Five Questions and Five Writing Prompts with Gerry Albarelli
1. When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I was pretty young— maybe ten years old. I didn’t necessarily say to myself or to anyone else that […]
WRITE ABOUT YOUR LIFE WITH CHRISTINE PAKALA
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“Introduction to Oral History for Writers” with Gerry Albarelli.
Meet author Barbara Josselson & hear about her workshop “Start Your Historical Novel.”
Meet Westport Writers’ Workshop instructor & copyeditor extraordinaire Nancee Adams
“I’m inspired by my students every week.” Meet Libby Waterford
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Congratulations to WWW Instructor, Doug Moser, on the publication of his story “Disco Sally.”
We hold in our thoughts and hearts…
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 […]