by Livvy Jean It was February when I was home sick from work, exhausted and feeling gross, that I got a call from the poet Deborah Landau informing me that I had been accepted into NYU’s creative writing Master’s program for fiction. She told me…
by Erin Madigan White Holly Rizzuto Palker’s journey with The Writers Circle started back in 2012 as a student. Since then, she embarked on a career as a writer, editor, podcast host, and stand-up comic. Now, she’s TWC’s newest instructor, helping others learn the craft…
Literary agent and author Kate McKean, knows what it means to “Write Through It.” At last Sunday’s virtual event, she shared her best advice for managing distractions, insecurities, creative struggles, and publishing uncertainties to keep writing even when life gets in the way. Kate focused…
compiled by Rebecca Kilroy, SCWI Coordinator It’s impossible to imagine what the Summer Intensives would be like without our incredible team of interns. Lively lunchtimes, epic Frisbee games, far-flung field trips and some of the funniest short skits you’ve ever heard are all possible because…
Reminiscing with TWC Directors Judith Lindbergh and Michelle Cameron After nearly a decade of running the Summer Creative Writing Intensives, The Writers Circle’s completely out-of-the-box, super-fun, creative writing program for teens, TWC directors Judith Lindbergh and Michelle Cameron got together to recall about how it…
by TWC Founder/Director Judith Lindbergh What a pleasure to welcome Christina Baker Kline back to The Writers Circle! Our conversation on Wrangling Research*, held Sunday, February 21 via Zoom, proved yet again Christina’s wisdom, candor, and generosity. In a whopping two-hour conversation, we covered the gamut from inspiration…
by Abbie Davidson Ironically, it feels almost impossible to put into words how meaningful writing is to me. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been a college student for 3+ years, and, because of that, my writing has woefully sat, mostly untouched, in months old Google drive…
by Laura Romain Do you remember how Sarah Palin (as imagined by Tina Fey) could see Russia from her house? Well, I can see St. Marguerite’s Retreat Center from my front window. The historic building perches at the top of Mendham’s second-highest hill, about a…
When I first started writing seriously, I was struck by the generosity of many of the experienced authors I encountered along the way. These writers were willing to take a fledgling by the hand and explain both craft and professional practice. They made all the…
by Mally Becker It was a bad week. There was a funeral, a sudden illness in the family and a last-minute work assignment with a tight deadline. In other words, my muse – such as she is – was M.I.A. She hadn’t left a forwarding…
By Steph Auteri This blog post was originally published on TWC Instructor Steph Auteri‘s blog. We are publishing this extract from it with permission. View the full post here. I was at my very first HippoCamp last year when I told Lisa Romeo my hopes and…
“I go into the Muslim mosque and the Jewish synagogue and the Christian church and I see one altar.” Rumi – 13th century Persian Sufi poet In this turbulent election season when divisive rhetoric threatens to tear the fabric of our…
