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Please join us March 6th for a reading from Women's Bodies, Women's Words at the Ferndale Library 222 E 9 Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI, US, 48220, from 6-7pm. Wildhaven Writers have put together a book of abortion stories and poems that is both timely and a must read. Past...

A Virtual Class presented by Chuckanut Writers January and the days are darker, and hopefully you are getting out when the sun shines. My husband and I just returned from Winthrop where we skied for four days. Though the snow was thin, we had fun despite slick...

My memoir, STRUCK, is complete. Still, moments from the early 70s come back to me often. I write them down in my writing practice. Writing practice is a daily practice that generates ideas and story. This is how I write my novel drafts: Celia's Heaven, "Ghost Rocks,"...

STRUCK EXCERPT: On Corral Hill Lookout at 6,000 feet, we watch for smoke, which might not be visible if a lightning strike catches fuel beneath the ground—a bigger fire waiting to happen once ignited by oxygen-rich air. Our boss, Arizona, says the roots can burn for a...

Writing poetry and sketching in nature are two of my favorite things to do. When I visit my adopted Whatcom Land Trust parcel, I sit on a log and jot down my ideas, or sketch something in my journal. While I'm "hard at it," my husband, Ron Pattern, one of the land...

Celia was rarely afraid of the woods, but lately she’d been feeling jumpy, especially after she’d found the kitchen door ajar one early morning when she returned from a dance performance at the Toi Toy Club. She’d switched on all the lights and looked beneath the bed...