Q&A with Bonny Millard, leader of 6/16/18 KWG Workshop, “Digging for Gold: Using Life’s Moments for Story Building” KWG: You are a seasoned writer. Do you still attend other writers’ workshops? Why or why not? Millard: Yes, when I have time. I used to attend those weekend two-day conferences, but unfortunately many of them have […]
Poet Rhea Carman will lead a workshop Saturday, April 14. Recently, she was willing to discuss what her workshop participants can look forward to: KWG: As a poet, one of your themes is contending with pain and utilizing poetry to help deal with pain. How did this become a focus for you? Did you discover […]
Saturday February 17th, writer Caitlin Hamilton Summie will lead a Knoxville Writers’ Guild sponsored workshop: What Works for Short Stories. The following short interview with her provides a glimpse of the possibilities awaiting this weekend’s workshop participants. KWG: You’re leading a KWG workshop on short story writing. As you began developing as a short story writer, […]
Bob Mayer has published over 70 books, hitting bestseller lists in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, with four titles hitting #1 on Kindle’s Science Fiction list. He graduated from West Point, and commanded a Green Beret A-Team. His presentations have engaged audiences in over a thousand organizations in […]
I caught up with novelist Julia Watts the other day to get a sense of her notions on her upcoming KWG program (11/2/17). A really interesting exchange developed on good story beginnings, critiques, and guild programing: DREWS: Can a good book have a bad or even average beginning? WATTS: Absolutely! Some books are “slow […]