This month, after devouring Dean Gloster‘s debut YA novel Dessert First, I just had to track down the author and…
The other day while reading Raymie Nightengale by Kate DiCamillo, I hit a passage that from a craft…
In a July 2016 article in Toronto’s Metro News, writer Richard Crouse recounts a joke told by world-class cellist Yo-Yo…
In this post by author Kathy Steffen, she talks about “giving your characters accountability.” I thought that was an odd…
When I was a student in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I heard Jane Kurtz, the…
I recently read and commented on a number of submissions for Hunger Mountain, Vermont College of Fine Arts’ journal for…
I met Winifred Conkling in 2009 when we were students in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts,…
The worst part of the writing process is the blank screen, the white paper, the emptiness, the limitless possibilities. The best…
Listen to these lines from the first page of Caminar, Skila Brown’s debut novel in verse: Our village sat in…
When I was a kid, I wrote letters. Real letters. By hand. Sometimes chain letters. Who has time for that…