Paying It Forward
But First, A Look Back: Writing Workshops Participants and leaders of the 2012 Yoknapatawpha Summer Writers Workshop in Oxford, Mississippi, gathered at Off Square Books On my journey to publishing...
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Susan starts a blog I know I’ve been a sluggard (or a slacker?) lately when it comes to writing for this blog. Blame it on the pandemic—who isn’t a bit depressed?—but even before that, I had already...
View ArticleA Room of Her Own
Not a bad gig for a writer I hope you’ve enjoyed hearing from many other authors during this time of isolation in my recent posts featuring some of the contributors to Southern Writers on Writing and...
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Kirby Pines and Janice Wall I felt a kindred spirit with Janice the first time we met, when she invited me to speak to the “Book Baggers” a few years ago. I first met Janice Wall a couple of years ago...
View ArticleThe Watchers at the Gates
Wisdom from YOK Twelve years ago I attended my first (of seven) Yoknapatawpha Summer Writers Workshops in Oxford, Mississippi. I wrote about it on my old blog, here: “Learning to See and Write...
View ArticleKirby Pines Senior Living Creative Writing Group
Four Months In At the invitation of the wonderful folks at Kirby Pines Senior Living in Memphis, I was invited to lead a Creative Writing Group earlier this year. Once we saw that Covid_19 wasn’t...
View ArticleAs Always, My Love
Return to Kirby Pines On Monday I facilitated a Zoom meeting with eight of the twenty members of the Kirby Pines Lifecare Community‘s Creative Writing Group. I introduced y’all to this group back in...
View ArticleBook Tour!
Tour for John and Mary Margaret . . . a work in progress! May 26 – A Novel Bee (Facebook) Author event, 7-8 p.m. June 1 – Tattered Page (Facebook) Author Takeover, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. June 4 – Novel...
View ArticleShelf Life
One thing I love about writing in so many different genres about so many different subjects is enjoying the “shelf life” of those books for months and years after publication. Southern Writers on...
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