by Harriet Gausman | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog
Winning Entries We received over 200 submissions. There were scores of poems that called to us for a re-read and to choose among them was a very difficult task. In the final cut, each of our winning poets had at least two poems in the running. What common element...
by Harriet Gausman | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog
Be Grateful for Where You Are We’ve just had Thanksgiving here in the U.S., a season when the smell of roasted turkeys and feelings of gratitude hang in the air. It’s easy to be grateful for so many things and people in our lives, but how often does our writing...
by Harriet Gausman | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog
Get ready for some literary clichés, because they’re going to be coming fast and furious. Fangsgiving has come and gone like the wind taking week three with it. The turkey and ham are being used to fill sandwiches made of dinner rolls smeared with cold mashed...
by Harriet Gausman | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
Good morning fellow scriveners! Now that you’ve jumped out of bed, jogged your two miles, taken a hot shower and had a good breakfast, it’s time to write! I’m dreaming, right? After all, I write fiction. Getting up, jogging, showering and having breakfast BEFORE I...
by Harriet Gausman | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog
With November here again, that crazy literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is back! We’ll be offering an exciting calendar of writerly delights – word scrimmages, write-ins, as well as inspirational workshops, talks and articles from...
by Harriet Gausman | Nov 16, 2016 | Blog
Well, here we are at the halfway point of another NaNoWriMo. This is my third – and it’s as nerve wracking, exhilarating and annoying as the first. Currently, I am at 41,000 words: close enough to my goal to taste it. This is the time when the writer’s...
