I first got into flash fiction because I was jealous of the poets reading at open mics. Poets would use their 5 minutes to fluidly saunter…
So, why didn’t I? Nine months into this, I’ve decided to break it down. In March, when we were all told not to come back to…
Like a phoenix emerging from the ash, one of the bright spots of this dumpster-fire of a year has been the emergence of a number of…
Alice Walker once said, “Activism is my rent for living on this planet.” Throughout history, writers have used their words to pay that rent. It is…
Tomorrow Philadelphia Writers’ Conference will mark our 72nd annual event by hosting our first-ever virtual conference — proving, perhaps, that you can teach an old conference…
A small collection of panels, workshops, and readings so that you don’t miss our annual conference too much! All in the comfort of your own home!…
Dear Ones, This time last year, we were wrapping up another PWC weekend: finishing three-day workshops, outlining new projects, grabbing a stack of magazines from the…
Writers in Jeannine Cook’s Wednesday Essay as Activism Write@Home forum are working on essays based on Octavia Butler’s essay, Positive Obsession. This is a guest post…
Since we’re not having a conference this year, we are providing an online series of forums, WRITE@HOME, to give writers something to do and somewhere to…
Calling All Writers! Exclusive Meet-the-Agent Workshop Coming to Atlantic City, NJ January 25, 2020; 1:00 PM ATLANTIC CITY—The Philadelphia Writers’ Conference, America’s longest running, open-registration writers conference…