reading recommendations

October 14, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: What happens when you see the ghost of your mother in your room? And it’s been years since she died and you return to your hometown? Cynthia Swanson talks about her new book, ANYONE BUT HER, how intuition, knowledge, and grief intertwine, plus where to write, how to write, embracing change
June 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Writing rituals, the meaning of home, recommending books to writers, and what’s behind the rejections + Sheila Sundar on HABITATIONS
August 31, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: How to prep your manuscript and your beta-readers, plus Una Mannion on writing in long stretches, dreaming about the work, and more in TELL ME WHAT I AM, plus Girls Write Now, the creative life, where to submit, more
July 5, 2023

Musings & Meaderings: Will Anyone Care? Exploring Writer’s Doubt–Plus, Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre lands–about grief, the supernatural, English countryside–and it’s going to be a movie, plus writing from photographs, the podcast matchmaker, revamping your writing group, more
March 21, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: A spring re-set for writers, designing interiors of tiny homes–Julie Carrick Dalton on her new book, THE LAST BEEKEEPER, found family, going home; poetry prize judged by Maggie Smith, Corporeal Writing’s Tree Retreat, Courtney Maum, fragments & more
February 24, 2023

MUSINGS & MEANDERINGS the host of podcast ‘The Only One in the Room,’ Laura Cathcart Robbins talks about her memoir on addiction, STASH; plus micro-memoir classes, visual writing, time management for the writer/creative, Story Studio happenings, Complete Sentence, and more
February 5, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Residencies and Workshops, writing anywhere, writing fragmented memoirs, Rebecca Makkai on boarding schools and murders, and so much more
December 21, 2022

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December 15, 2022

Musings & Meanderings: What writers need, where to submit, an archive of author interviews, book lists to tempt, building teen confidence, more
December 8, 2022

Musings & Meanderings: Taking risk with your art, going hybrid, planning your 2023 writing year, classes and workshops, where to submit, author interviews, reading recommendations