Still Growing…
In 2010 my friend and fellow writer, Mary Dowling walked in to our beloved local library, the Thayer Memorial Library in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and suggested to the
In 2010 my friend and fellow writer, Mary Dowling walked in to our beloved local library, the Thayer Memorial Library in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and suggested to the
Geoff Hunt cover art for The Hundred Days, by Patrick O’Brian This summer I have been rereading Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin novels, all six-thousand-five-hundred-and-seventy-odd pages
The best playwrights have much to teach us about navigating life, but also about the craft of writing. On Saturday, October 21, SWBC welcomes James B.
Ursula Wong is a retired engineer who writes gripping stories about strong women struggling against impossible odds to achieve their dreams. Her work has appeared
The essential elements a writer of fiction must grapple with early on in the process of telling a story are plot, characters, point of view,
On Saturday, January 20th, Seven Bridge Writers Collaborative will be hosting the award-winning writer and illustrator Jennifers Morris for the workshop, Writing Wtih Pictures: The Role
Recently, I was on a panel discussing ‘Writing From History’ when someone in the audience claimed that historical fiction dilutes facts in order to tell
On November 22, 2013, I rolled into a familiar parking space. I had been sitting there fifty years ago when an announcer crackled and hissed
Seven Bridge Writers’ Collaborative is honored to host Paul Hertneky—journalist, screenwriter, and the author of the much praised, Rust Belt Boy: Stories of an American Childhood—on
Narrative point of view, like a tree’s vast root system, feeds and shapes a story. It is a complex element of fiction that involves many important
When we write fiction, we have a lot of choices in narrative voices. At my workshop earlier this month, I broke down those choices into
I didn’t plan to write anything. But when my daughter, KT, was eight, she opted for horseback riding, and I found myself at a pink, picture-postcard
The last weekend in October 2018, the River’s Edge Arts Alliance hosted its Pop-Up Play Festival, where local writer, Carolyn M. Mitchell’s, Table for Three, had
Mary Bonina Some years back as a new MFA student in creative writing, after just being assigned to work with fiction-writer Mary Elsie Robertson as
On March 16, I’ll lead a workshop for SBWC on researching characters from early New England. Most everyday people left scant evidence of their daily
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