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2025-07-3003 min
Write Now Podcast at the Writers' ColonyCathie English Shares Her Tribute Memoir with WCDHDr. Cathie English, Professor of English at Missouri State University and formerly an English and language arts high school teacher, shares the inspiration and meaning behind penning her tribute memoir, Dear Ruth: A Book of Grief.Dr. English's academic work has been published in Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, English Journal, The Rural Educator, The Journal of Literacy Innovation, Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, Syracuse University Press, Routledge, and IGI Global.
2025-06-1420 min
Write Now Podcast at the Writers' ColonyTiffany Mi, Poet and Curator of Collective MemoryWCDH interviews Tiffany Mi on site during her residency about her poetry as well as her interest in collective memory and the archive. Tiffany is currently completing her Masters at Brown University. Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere.At Writers' Colony, Tiffany worked on her debut collection of lyric essays that explore memory, language, and inheritance through the lens of translation.
2025-05-1914 min
Write Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Melody GeeMelody S. Gee is the author of three books of poetry, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat (Driftwood Press, 2022) runner-up for the Adrift Chapbook Prize; The Dead in Daylight (2016, Cooper Dillon Books), long listed for the Julie Suk Award; and Each Crumbling House (2010, Perugia Press), winner of the Perugia Press Poetry Prize. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear recently in Commonweal Magazine, Essay Daily, Lantern Review, Rappahannock Review, Ruminate, The Academy of American Poets. Born in Taiwan and raised in California, she is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of New Mexico. She has...
2023-01-1631 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Deirdre FaganDeirdre Fagan is the award-winning author of the memoir, Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death (Pact Press, Regal House Publishing, November 1, 2022), a short story collection, The Grief Eater (Adelaide Books, 2020), and a chapbook of poetry, Have Love (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. Fagan is also the author of the reference book, Critical Companion to Robert Frost (Facts on File, 2007) and has published critical essays on poetry, memoir, and pedagogy. Notably, her essay on Emily Dickinson’s dash was included in Ha...
2022-12-1531 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Sean FitzgibbonArtist Sean Fitzgibbon explores unusual, real places and events through his work. He has an MFA in art and a passion for making art and visual storytelling. He is a 2021 Artists 360 recipient and a 2023 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award for graphic nonfiction “What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel. He has exhibited work throughout the US. He also illustrates books and recently completed writing and illustrating a documentary-style graphic nonfiction that explores the Crescent Hotel’s strange two years as the Baker Hospital, one of the darkest and most controversial legends in the town of Eureka...
2022-11-1532 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Martha Anne TollMore Than Tutus and Pointe Shoes: A Reading List of Ballet Books
Martha Anne Toll writes fiction, essays, and book reviews, and reads anything that’s not nailed down. Her debut novel, Three Muses, won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction. Toll brings a long career in social justice to her work covering writers of color and women writers. She is a book reviewer and author interviewer at NPR Books, the Washington Post, Pointe Magazine, The Millions, and elsewhere. She also publishes short fiction and essays in a wide variety of outlets. Toll has recently joined th...
2022-10-1431 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Sallie CrottyOut of the Ashes: A Story of Recovery and Hope is educator Sallie Crotty’s first book. Previously she has published poems, personal essays, and articles in The Dairy Hollow Echo (an anthology of best selections from The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow’s eMerge); The Drabble; eMerge; Resources to Recover (an online resource for people living with mental illness); The Menninger Clinic’s Annual Fund 2016 publication; Texas Jewish Post; and Capitalines. The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference selected her writing for workshop three times, and in 2018 The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow awarded her a residency. In 2018 Oral Fixation (An Obsessio...
2022-09-1631 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Lisa BraxtonLisa Braxton is an essayist, short story writer, and novelist. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University, her Master of Science in Journalism Broadcasting from Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media from Hampton University. Her debut novel, The Talking Drum, was published by Inanna Publications in May 2020. She is a fellow of the Kimbilio Fiction Writers Program and a book reviewer for 2040 Review. Her stories and essays have appeared in Vermont Literary Review, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Book of Hope. She received...
2022-07-2230 min
Write Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Rosaleen BertolinoRosaleen Bertolino was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently living in Mexico. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her M.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her awards include a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and an Honorable Mention for the James D. Phelan Award. She has twice been a finalist for Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award, and has been a writer in residence at the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, during 2008, 2007, and 2006. She is...
2022-06-0934 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Helena RhoHelena Rho is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominated writer and a former assistant professor of pediatrics. She received her Doctor of Medicine in 1992 and has practiced and taught at Top Ten Children’s Hospitals—the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh. Her essays have been included in anthologies published by Southern Methodist University Press: “The Burden of Baby Boy Smith” in Rage and Reconciliation (2005) and “The Good Doctor” in Silence Kills (2007). She was awarded a writing fellowship in TWP: To Think...
2022-05-1534 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Cheryl KingCheryl King is an author who lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas with her best friend and husband, Harland. Her first career was in publishing working as a proofreader for Doubleday and then later as an editor for a vanity press publishing firm. Life then intruded and sent her on a course where she would spend the next thirty years in corporate America in the telecommunications industry. It was a vital and exciting time with massive growth and explosive changes. She participated in the launch of some of today's most critical data networks and platforms. Through all the years she...
2020-12-0940 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Vicki MaykAbout Vicki Mayk in her own words: "I can still remember the first time I walked into a newsroom. I was 12 and it was early on a Sunday morning – probably one of the only times that it’s quiet in a place where the insanity of putting out a daily newspaper takes place. I was meeting one of the writers I admired, a dream come true for a kid from Pittsburgh who aspired to be a writer. It was a place where magic happened: Men and women wrote true stories about real people. I fell in love with writing thos...
2020-11-1358 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Jeremy Leon HanceJeremy Leon Hance is a writer and freelance environmental journalist, who also happens to cohabitate with mental illnesses. He has named his OCD Steve and his depression goes by the name of Malachi. He is the author of the memoir Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac. As a journalist, Hance cut his teeth at Mongabay, beginning in 2009 and working as a lead writer and editor for six years. For over three years he wrote the blog Radical Conservation on the Guardian. Today, he is a columnist for Mongabay, writing monthly articles under the banner Saving Life on Earth: Words...
2020-10-291h 11Write Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Aaron EastAaron East is a 2019 graduate of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he majored in English and History. Originally hailing from Royse City, Texas, Aaron is now a graduate student of English at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. His research interests include Medieval literature and history, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
2020-10-2340 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Aaron EastAaron East is a 2019 graduate of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he majored in English and History. Originally hailing from Royse City, Texas, Aaron is now a graduate student of English at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. His research interests include Medieval literature and history, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
2020-10-2300 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Emily and Raymond of MelonlightEmily and Raymond of Melonlight in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, are certified professional ballroom dance instructors. They have over 40 years of combined experience teaching, performing, and inspiring couples to make dance a part of their relationships. It's not a hobby for Emily and Raymond, it is their passion and career that they take seriously. Oh, but they have tons of fun too! It’s Melonlight's mission to deliver inspiring quality content that has a lasting impact.
- Intro music, "Let's Face the Music and Dance" by Nat King Cole, from his 1964 album, "Let's Face the Music and Dance."
2020-10-0744 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Cynthia SampleCynthia Sample has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Vermont College and also holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her writing credits include stories in SLAB, Numéro Cinq, Summerset Review, Sleet, Wichita Falls Review of Literature and Art, Between the Lines, and Love After 70. She was also a finalist in the New Letters Fiction Prize. Her stories have won first places in contests such as the Arkansas Writers’ Conference and the Ozark Writers’ Conference. Find out more about Cynthia at http://www.cynthiacsample.com/.
2020-09-2544 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyFeaturing Jody Hobbs HeslerJody Hobbs Hesler has written ever since she could hold a pencil. She lives and writes at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work includes short stories, novels, feature articles, book reviews, essays, and other free-lance writing and editing.
Growing up, Jody split her time between suburban Richmond, Virginia, and the mountains outside Winchester, Virginia. Experiences of both regions flavor her writing.
Today, Jody teaches at Writer House in Charlottesville, Virginia and is offering an online course beginning September 19th, “Staying the Course.” It is designed for people with long-term writing goals, such as nov...
2020-09-1253 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Morris McCorveyMorris McCorvey has been nominated to become the Poet Laureate of Oklahoma. What an insightful conversation.
2020-09-0444 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Wendy Whelan-StewartIn her eleventh year of teaching both American and women’s literature, Wendy Whelan-Stewart is an associate professor of English at McNeese State University, where she also directs the Master of Arts in English program. She has published articles on Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Plath, H.D., and Gwendolyn Brooks and is working on her first book.
Intro music "Yoga" by Janelle Monáe and Jidenna.
2020-08-2859 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Yermiyahu Ahron TaubYermiyahu Ahron Taub is a poet, writer, and translator. His works of fiction are Beloved Comrades: a Novel in Stories (Quanah, Texas: Anaphora Literary Press, 2020) and Prodigal Children in the House of G-d: Stories (London; Cambridge; New York; Sharjah: Austin Macauley, 2018), winner of two CIPA EVVY Merit Awards (LGBTQ Fiction and Religious/Spiritual Fiction) and named a finalist for a Foreword INDIES Award (Religious (Adult Fiction)). He is the author of six books of poetry: A moyz tsvishn vakldike volkn-kratsers: geklibene Yidishe lider/A Mouse Among Tottering Skyscrapers: Selected Yiddish Poems (Tel Aviv: Bibliotek fun der haynttsaytiker Yidisher literatur/Libr...
2020-08-2141 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Caryn Mirriam-GoldbergCaryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate, a writer, teacher, and facilitator, and coach and consultant who explores how the spoken, written and sung word can help us live more vibrant lives. Founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College, Caryn is the author or editor of over 20 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, non-fiction, and anthologies. A registered songwriter with BMI, her poetry and prose has been published widely.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is a visionary. She bases her writing within communities for community empowerment. I cannot tell how strongly I feel that we are lucky to have her...
2020-08-0733 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing David HaynesDavid Haynes is the author of seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers. He is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University where he directs the creative writing program. He also teaches regularly in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has taught in the MFA Programs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Hamline University, and at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, and at the Writers’ Garret in Dallas.
David received a fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and several of his short stories have been read and recorded fo...
2020-07-3150 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Zoe FawkesZoe Fawkes is a fantasy novelist, world traveler, feminist and shameless geek.
2020-07-1032 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Laura Parker CastoroLAURA PARKER CASTORO is a best-selling author with thirty-nine (39) books published in the U.S. Her work has also been published in fifteen (15) foreign languages.
"Being a writer is the best thing in the world. You spend your days working with characters you've created, making them do and say things you think they should. If you're lucky, they listen. If you're even luckier, you get paid."
Laura began her career writing historical and contemporary romance as LAURA PARKER. Her first title was SILKS AND SABERS (May 1980, Dell). She went on to write novels in other genres...
2020-04-2942 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Molly ScrogesMolly Sroges is a linguist-poet who teaches English as a Second Language at Green Forest High School. She has been published in Scibendi and performed poetry all over Arkansas, as well as representing Northwest Arkansas at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Albuquerque and Dallas. She is the current host of the Ozark Poets and Writers Collective, on the last Tuesday of the month in Fayetteville, and of Word Brews, on the second Thursday at Brews in Eureka Springs. She is also a co-host of the podcast Reading Circle Temple, which can be found at www.readingcircletemple.c...
2020-04-2829 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Jackie WolvenJacqueline Wolven amplifies real places, people and work through the motto #DoGoodWork.
Authenticity isn't just a buzzword in the Do Good Work Studio. I live it. Write about it. Push and pull it out of you and your company/project/idea. It is my highest goal in all the work I do to help you have that aha moment.
You, of course, can hire me to work directly with you, book me to speak or facilitate your group. Let's talk. Email or Call +1-479-244-5074. Or you can sign up for my letter that I...
2020-04-2742 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Lonnie Whitaker with WCDH Executive Director Michelle HannonLonnie Whitaker’s first novel, Geese to a Poor Market, was published September 2010 and was awarded the Ozark Writers’ League Best Book of the Year. His stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Missouri Life, The Ozark Mountaineer, Echoes of the Ozarks, Cuivre River Anthology, and he has received awards in nationally advertised fiction contests.
He served as an editor for Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories from the Left Hand of God, (Hourglass Books, 2007), and as the literary fiction editor for High Hill Press (2012-2017) He was awarded the 2005 Starr Fellowship at the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow...
2020-04-2434 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Jane ElzeyAuthor Jane Elzey writes a modern-day cozy mystery about four audacious women and the games they play to win... while husbands die trying. As spirited in their middle-aged years as they were in their youth, Amy, Zelda, Genna and Rian manage to land in trouble wherever they go. Join these four friends on their adventures in an Ozarks tale of calamity and Southern sass, as they unravel whodunnit and whodidn't. Jane Elzey writes from her home in the Ozark Mountains in the Natural State. Enjoy the ride and camaraderie at The Cardboard Cottage & Company with these zany women who li...
2020-04-2337 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Talya Tate BoernerAs the daughter of an Arkansas farmer, Talya Tate Boerner grew up playing in the cotton fields of Mississippi County while perfecting the art of making mudpies. After high school, she attended college at Baylor University, graduating with an economics degree primarily because her Daddy said, “If I’m paying for college, you’ll get a business degree.” So that’s what she did.
For nearly thirty years, Talya lived in Dallas, built a successful banking career, married, raised two incredible children and enjoyed life—all the while planning to someday return to Arkansas.
In 2011, after an “aha” m...
2020-04-2237 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Allyn LordAlthough a Yankee by birth, Allyn Lord has called Northwest Arkansas home for more than half of her life and worked in its museums for more than thirty-five years. She has been active in numerous professional museum organizations in Arkansas, the Southeast, and the U.S. She serves as a peer reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums and as a field reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Currently serving on the board of the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Allyn may be found in her off-hours working on a historical biography, spoiling various cats, and hos...
2020-04-2149 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Zev BenjaminScience fiction writer, Zev Benjamin, talks about the book he has just completed.
2020-04-2035 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Sanya Whittaker GraggWife, Mom, Social Worker, and now Author, Sanya Whittaker Gragg has always had a passion for working with and inspiring kids. She holds degrees from the University of Memphis, Georgia State University, and the University of Southern California. She has worn many hats including 10 years in marketing/PR and athletics; working for NIKE, the Detroit Pistons and the University of Michigan Athletics Department. Sanya also worked as an assistant to best selling author, E.Lynn Harris. Her community work has included serving on the board for a homeless shelter for families, and advocating in the courts for foster children as...
2020-04-1733 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Harrie FarrowHarrie Farrow grew up in the Virgin Islands and graduated summa cum laude from San Francisco State with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Human Sexual Studies. A brief career in freelance writing in the Virgin Islands was followed by a move to the Ozarks, where she opened and operated a fine dining restaurant for 18 years.
She became an investigative reporter after retiring from the restaurant business, but four slashed tires convinced her to quit that line of work and instead focus on publishing her bisexual themed novel, “Love, Sex, and Understanding the Universe.”
Farrow i...
2020-04-1633 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Davina KotulskiDAVINA S. KOTULSKI, PH.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, sought after speaker, and award-winning, best-selling author with a thriving private therapy practice in Los Angeles, California and an international life coaching practice.
She’s worked with successful authors, HBO and syndicated actors, managers, vice presidents of companies, seven-figure professionals, non-profit leaders, hospital administrators, entrepreneurs, and medical professionals. She’s helped clients move through fear, self-doubt, transition, creative blocks, grief and loss, coming out, and even gender reassignment surgery to lead fulfilling, empowered lives.
She facilitates workshops and webinars including following your courageous heart, past life...
2020-04-1533 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Bill McCloudBill McCloud has been teaching American history since 1974 and is a three-time Teacher of the Year. Bill has been on-site at WCDH as a guest reader at Poetluck in November 2018 and again in April 2019 for National Poetry Month. He is a frequent contributor to WCDH’s eMerge Online Literary Magazine. Bill’s first book, “WHAT SHOULD WE TELL OUR CHILDREN ABOUT VIETNAM?” (University of Oklahoma Press), was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. All of his Vietnam War papers have been purchased by the main library at Harvard University. Dozens of his Vietnam War poems are part of the offi...
2020-04-1440 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Kathy MartoneDr. Kathy Martone is a Jungian Psychologist and healer in private practice since 1986. She has served as a company psychologist for a large corporation and has previously taught at Colorado Free University, Iliff School of Theology, Naropa University, and Jungian Ministries International. For the past 20 years, she has been in analysis with Richmond K. Greene, past chair of the New York Jungian Institute. Steeped in the ancient traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Celtic Spirituality, Dr. Martone is a warm and compassionate healer who has crafted deep intuitive wisdom out of her many and varied life experiences. She has written...
2020-04-1330 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Doug StoweDoug Stowe began his woodworking career in 1976.
In 1977 Doug founded the Eureka Springs Guild of Artists and Craftspeople. In 1995, he started writing books and articles about woodworking. In 1998, he was one of three founders of the Eureka Springs School of the Arts.
In 2001 he started the Wisdom of the Hands Program at the Clear Spring School, a small independent school in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to prove the value of wood shop and hands-on learning. In 2006 he began his blog, Wisdom of the Hands. In 2009, the Arkansas Arts Council named Doug an Arkansas Living Treasure for hi...
2020-04-1242 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Ruth WeinsteinOur beloved poet and writer, Ruth Weinstein, has published her memoir, "Back to the Land: Alliance Colony to the Ozarks in Four Generations" as a descendant of original settlers of the Alliance Colony in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey. It was the first successful Jewish farming community in America. Ruth tells the story of her forbears, her time in Alliance and Norma as a child and teenager, and her life as a long-time member of the back-to-the-land movement in the Ozarks of Arkansas.
2020-04-1137 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Karen Salyer McElmurrayKaren writes both fiction and creative nonfiction. Her memoir, Surrendered Child, won the AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction and was listed as a “notable book” by the National Book Critics Circle. She is also the author of Motel of the Stars, Editor's Pick from Oxford American, and a Lit Life Book of the Year. Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven (University of Georgia Press), a novel that won the Lillie Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing and, most recently, Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, co-edited with Adrian Blevins, from Ohio University Press. Her essays have won the Annie Dillard Pri...
2020-04-1038 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Jonathan VatnerJonathan Vatner is an award-winning journalist who has written for The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Poets & Writers; and many other publications. He has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in cognitive neuroscience from Harvard University. He lives in Yonkers, NY, with his husband and cats. Carnegie Hill is his first novel. His second novel, The Bridesmaids Union, is forthcoming from Thomas Dunne Books in 2021.
2020-04-0923 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Wendy Reese HartmanWendy Reese Hartmann is a yoga and mindfulness mentor, author, speaker, host of The Whole Being Zone and a 500 Registered Yoga Teacher/200 private yoga hour eRYT with rs of teaching experience. Wendy considers yoga asana to be training for living whole off the mat. She infuses ancient wisdom with pragmatic woo-woo in applicable, fun, and slightly irreverent ways to optimize wholeness.
Wendy holds a BS in Exercise Science from Northern Arizona University and a MA in Applied Community Change and Conservation from Future Generations Graduate School. She has worked in the field of health and wellness for 25 ye...
2020-04-0844 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Zeek TaylorAn award-winning artist, Zeek Taylor has been the subject of many one-man-exhibits and juried shows. He is the recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, and his paintings have hung in the Arkansas Governor's Mansion. He received the 2018 Idle Class Magazine Black Apple "Legacy" award.
His work has been displayed on five occasions in the Arkansas Arts Center, three times in the prestigious Delta Exhibition and two times in the International Toys Designed by Artists Exhibition. Zeek has earned several "Best of Show" awards. His work is available in the museum store at the C...
2020-04-0731 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Eric SassonEric Sasson is the author of the short story collection “Margins of Tolerance” (Livingston Press, 2012) and the forthcoming novel, “Admissions.” His stories have been nominated for the Robert Olen Butler Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and one is in The Best Gay Stories 2013. For three years, he wrote “Ctrl-Alt,” a column on LGBT culture for the Wall Street Journal, and he is now a regular contributor to The New Republic and GOOD magazine. His political articles have been featured on “Meet the Press” and “Morning Joe,” and his December 2016 article “Turning Fury into Fuel” for GOOD magazine just won a National Magazine Award “El...
2020-04-0648 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Hannah BaeHannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness.
Her work has been published in books including “(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation on Mental Health” (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) and “The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul” (food and drinks chapter co-editor/writer, 2018).
She is focused on stories about Korean American culture and identity, and in 2019, several of her essays received nominations for The Pushcart Prize. She was a 2019 Open City fellow in narrative nonfiction at Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Through 2018 and 2019, Ha...
2020-04-0546 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Ruth MitchellRuth Mitchell has been writing non-fiction articles for many years. White Oak is her first work of fiction. Her articles have appeared in Art & Antiques, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, American History, Fodor’s USA Travel Guide and Fodor’s Great American Vacations, Watercolor, American Style, Niche, Wedding Dresses, and Sailing magazines. Ruth interviewed world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli for Echoes magazine; wrote an article on early aviatrixes, Louise Thaden and Amelia Earhart, for American History magazine as well as many travel articles on Europe, the Bahamas, San Francisco, Antigua, and Napa Valley for Romantic Destinations. She has been editor of A...
2020-04-0430 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Dan KrotzDan Krotz
After leaving the US Army, Dan worked various odd jobs while studying at the University of Minnesota. In 1983, he and a partner launched a software start-up and Dan hit the road to peddle it. That was the start of his life as a traveling man who's been in every state of the Union, along with towns in Korea, the Ukraine, Laos, Cambodia, the Former Soviet Union, Egypt, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Eastern Europe, Italy, Kosovo...well, let's just say that Dan "was on the last slow boat to China and the last plane to leave Saigon."
Fe...
2020-04-0329 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Ruth NasrullahRuth Nasrullah
I have a passion for learning people’s stories: the way we do things, individually and as a society; how we share our values and face our challenges; what motivates our interaction with the world.
I have worked as a freelance journalist since 2003, focusing on religion and spirituality, backpacking and hiking, social justice and politics, civil rights, and public speaking.
From 2006 to 2015 I wrote The Straight Path blog for the Houston Chronicle. I have also contributed to the paper’s Belief and Gray Matters sections. I have written on politics and civil ri...
2020-04-0229 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Philip CioffariPhilip Cioffari grew up in the Bronx and received his B.A. from St. John's University and his Ph.D. from New York University. He teaches in the writing program at William Paterson University. His novels and story collections include: If Anyone Asks, Say I Died From The Heartbreaking Blues; The Bronx Kill; Catholic Boys; Dark Road, Dead End; Jesusville; and A History Of Things Lost Or Broken.
His independent movie, Love In The Age Of Dion, has won numerous film festival awards including, Best Feature Film at the Long Island International Film Expo and Best Director at th...
2020-04-0138 minWrite Now at The Writers' Colonyfeaturing Crescent DragonwagonCalled by the Chicago Tribune, “An earthy, red-headed yarn-spinning woman,” Crescent Dragonwagon is the much-published author of fifty books in five genres, numerous magazine articles, and two blogs. Presently, at 6:00 p.m. CST on Facebook Live, Crescent reads aloud each evening with tech/text support by Mark Graff. Selections are books she's written and ones written by her mother, Charlotte Zolotowoffers. You can find her delicious recipies (like the lentil soup mentioned in the podcast) on her blog as well as in her cookbooks.
Crescent is the developer and leader of the Fearless WritingTM family of on- and o...
2020-03-3143 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyFeaturing Charles TempletonCharles Templeton, author of Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam, was born in deep East Texas in 1946. So deep, they had to pipe in the sunshine. His parents were nomads in the Mojave Desert in the fifties where Chuck Yeager taught him how to crush beer cans on his forehead. After being dismissed from the Copyle Lincoln Therapeutic Boarding School for Miscreant Teenage Girls, he attended Sherman High School in Sherman, TX. He was admitted to Austin College after promising to bring back all of the furniture that had disappeared from the office of the president. As the president...
2020-03-3034 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyEpisode 6 - featuring writer, Martha Anne TollMartha Anne Toll's fiction has appeared in Catapult, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, eMerge, Slush Pile Magazine, Yale's Letters Journal, Inkapture Magazine, Referential Magazine, and Poetica E-Magazine. Her essays and reviews appear regularly on NPR and in The Millions; as well as in Washington Post's The Lily, The Rumpus, Bloom, Scoundrel Time, After the Art [forthcoming] Narrative Magazine, [PANK] Magazine, Cargo Literary, Tin House blog, The Nervous Breakdown, Heck Magazine, and the Washington Independent Review of Books. Martha was a nominator and critic for NPR's 2017, 2018, and 2019 book concierge. A four-time finalist in Glimmer Train writing contests, Martha won the Dante Society of Americ...
2020-03-0533 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyEpisode 5 - featuring poet, Wendy Taylor CarlisleWendy Taylor Carlisle was born in Manhattan, raised in Bermuda, Connecticut and Ft Lauderdale, Florida and lives now in the Arkansas Ozarks in a house she built in 1980. She has an MA from The University of Arkansas and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of The Mercy of Traffic (Unlikely Books, 2019), Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press, 2008) and Reading Berryman to the Dog (Jacaranda Press, 2000.) Chapbooks include They Went to the Beach to Play (Locofo Chaps, 2016), Chap Book (Platypus Press, 2016), Persephone on the Metro (MadHat press, 2014), The Storage of Angels (Slow Water Press, 2008), and After Happily Ev...
2020-02-1927 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyEpisode 4 - featuring playwright, Margie Semilof, and a reading by poet, Michael FontanaMargie Semilof is a Boston-based playwright. Her short plays have been produced at a variety of regional and national festivals, such as The Group Rep, in LA, Theatre East, in New York, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, Mass., at Greenbrier Valley Theatre New Voices, Lewisburg, WV., and the Weathervane 8x10 in Akron, Ohio, to name a few. She was recently commissioned by Theatre East in NYC to write short pieces for the 5x5 festival that ran in conjunction with the NYCPride Festival in 2019, and a piece for students at Stella Adler Studio's summer program in New York. Her...
2020-02-0729 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyEpisode 3 - featuring author, Keija Parssinen, and a reading by poet, Wendy Taylor CarlisleKeija Parssinen graduated cum laude from Princeton University, where she studied English literature and received a certificate from the Program for the Study of Women and Gender. She earned her MFA at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote fellow, a Teaching and Writing fellow, and the student editor of the Iowa Short Fiction contest. After finishing the program, she won a Michener-Copernicus award for her debut novel, The Ruins of Us, which was published in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Italy and around the Middle East. The novel was long-listed for the Cha...
2020-01-2241 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyEpisode 2 - Segment 2 - featuring author, Daniel KrotzChad Gurley talks with Daniel Krotz about the new book, "Not Dead Yet: Reflections on Life, Aging, and Death," available now in bookstores.
2019-12-1735 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyEpisode 2 - Segment 1 - featuring Cné Breaux and Ilene PowellChad Gurley talks with Cné Breaux and Ilene Powell about Krewe du Kork's upcoming Harlequin Ball benefiting The Writers' Colony.
2019-12-1727 minWrite Now at The Writers' ColonyEpisode 1 - Featuring author, Sherri C. PerryWelcome to the first episode of The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow's podcast, "Write Now at The Writers' Colony." In this episode, host, Chad Gurley, talks with author, Sherri C. Perry. We also learn more about The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, from Executive Director, Michelle Hannon.
2019-12-0532 min