by Web Editor | Dec 15, 2025 | Speaker Recap
My Path to WritingBy Bill Baldwin Donna (D.M.) Rowell knows about storytelling—she should! Growing up as a member of the Kiowa tribe in Oklahoma, she’s listened to stories her entire life! In Kiowa culture, storytelling connects you to the community, its past, and its...
by Web Editor | Nov 3, 2025 | Speaker Recap
The Reporter’s Toolkit for Novelists: Bringing Journalistic Skills To Fictionby Bill Baldwin Geri Spieler, journalist and author of Housewife Assassin—The Woman Who Tried To Kill President Ford plus two works of historical fiction, shared her insights at our October...
by Web Editor | Sep 14, 2025 | Speaker Recap
A Writer’s Journey by Bill Baldwin Our September speaker, Meg Waite Clayton, shared her experience of knowing at a young age that she wanted to become a writer, but not fulfilling that ambition until midlife. She felt the attraction of writing, even as a preteen; yet...
by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2025 | Speaker Recap
Painting Pictures with Wordsby Bill Baldwin Contributor How can I do justice to our August speaker Nils Michals’ talk on “Rilke, Cézanne, and Revisioning the Poetic Image?” I feel I would need degrees in Literature, Art, and Philosophy, at the least! I’ll do what I...
by Web Editor | Jun 14, 2025 | Speaker Recap
Critique Styles, Formats, and Expectations Bill Baldwin As writers, most of us understand the importance of critique groups—but how well do we actually understand their true use fulness and how they function? Did you know there are actually a variety of approaches to...
by Web Editor | May 24, 2025 | Speaker Recap
Creativity in An Age of False Perfection By Tamara Bell Catharine Bramkamp began her talk by telling us that AI is just a run-on math program, using stolen information raked from the Internet. It does the “math” of the story—but not the calculations. AI will not...
