Anya Achtenberg: “The Disobedient Writer”- A Writer Who Dares

https://thedisobedientwriter.com/about/ “If my house were burning down, I would grab artwork, my book, and the notebooks I wrote in Anya’s classes. If you’re looking for an average writing teacher or editor, go elsewhere. Anya resides in the upper stratosphere of creativity and, if you let her, will lift your writing …

Continue reading

Writers Who Dare! Write, photo by Charissa Uemura

Continue reading

How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse (Modern History Press, May 2017).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse (Modern History Press, May 2017). Sherry Quan Lee, editor. Poet and editor Sherry Quan Lee challenged 24 multicultural writers to respond to the question, “How dare we write?” The resulting personal narratives and examinations of craft reveal how …

Continue reading

 OBSESSIVE BEHAVIORS: writing the same story over and over again

OBSESSIVE BEHAVIORS:  writing the same story over and over again   I started writing in second grade, a jingle.  I was paraded from room to room in Standish Elementary School to persuade my peers to give money to public television, or some such cause.  In fifth grade, some of us …

Continue reading