Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and your new year is off to a great start. I haven’t updated this blog in awhile so here goes… The end of 2019 had me really pondering a number of things: I had been, in the last months of the year, suffering a number of health
So 2019 has been an incredibly busy year for me. I taught several Fast Flash workshops, (I’m in the midst of teaching a Master Class as we speak), I ran some awesome writing retreats with my friend and business partner, Nancy Stohlman (Costa Rica! Italy! Grand Lake!), taught at the wonderful Flash Fiction Festival in
Yesterday, I found out that I’d been awarded a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship for 2020. I still can’t quite believe it. This goes under the heading of Things I Never Dreamed Would Happen to Me. The foundation awards only up to 30 of these each year to a variety of artists. This 25-day residency outside of
Yesterday, I emailed the announcement of my Fall schedule of workshops to those on my mailing list. I’m really excited about the new classes I’m offering! I’m also offering two Fast Flash workshops ONLY to those who’ve not been able to get in yet. You will only have received this if you’ve signed up for
July is nearly over and my last Fast Flash class of the summer concludes August 2nd. I’m already feeling the end of summer approaching and I’ve begun to look at my schedule for the Fall. There remains a high demand for my workshops and for that I’m very grateful. I’ll soon be sending out an
Whew! Last month, Daniel Halper from Skillshare invited me to create a video class based on my popular Fast Flash© Workshop. It was a lot of hard work but also tons of fun pulling this class together and filming it. I’m very proud of the result and I’m thrilled today to share with you, “Fast
Abundant thanks to Angela Williams (who writes under the pseudonym, Susan Carey) for this lovely review on the Writers Abroad site of my Fast Flash Workshop, which she’d just recently participated in. Angela describes it as a “Turbo Boost Writing Course” (I love that!). Here is an excerpt: “Not only did I learn a great
Today is the last day of my final Fast Flash workshop until I reopen registrations for my Fall/Winter workshops later this summer. It has been quite a ride. In addition to my teaching for the Mile High MFA program at Regis University, and my wonderful week of teaching the Roving Writers in Victoria, BC in
Things are moving quickly with the upcoming co-authored short fiction collection with Bud Smith’s Unknown Press. Robert Vaughan and I are busy exchanging edits and deciding the layout and order of our stories. We have found an amazing photographer for the cover art (which I’ll reveal soon!), and we are actively seeking blurbs. And once
Just completed the first official Fast Flash© Workshop this past weekend and it went great! Had an amazing group of smart, talented writers who were so much fun to work with. And the September workshop is already filled! But watch this space for announcements of future workshops. Today, I received my contributor copy of Heavy Feather