Still Growing…
July 15, 2022
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
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Writing From History – A Special SBWC Upcoming Event
July 15, 2022
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
An act that does… An Interview with James B. Nicola
July 15, 2022
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.
An Interview with Ursula Wong
July 15, 2022
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
Bridging Writers – Some Thoughts on Theme in Fiction, with David Daniel
July 15, 2022
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,
Stories That Bring You Joy: An Interview with Jennifer Morris
July 15, 2022
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
Making History – Some Thoughts on Writing Historical Fiction, by Ursula Wong
July 15, 2022
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
Free Fall – by Winona Wendth
July 15, 2022
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
Panning For Gold: Talking Memoir with Paul Hertneky
July 15, 2022
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
John Bell on Narrative Point of View
July 15, 2022
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
More from John Bell – Narrative Voices in Non-Fiction
July 15, 2022
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
Three Hundred Words, with Ray Tatten
July 15, 2022
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
Play Writing, with Carolyn Mitchell
July 15, 2022
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
The Raw Material of Life: Memoir Writing, with Mary Bonina
July 15, 2022
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
Recovering The Past, with Mary Fuhrer
July 15, 2022
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
