Poet Margaret Fieland has been around art and music all her life. Daughter of a painter, she is an accomplished flute and piccolo player, who makes her living as a computer software engineer. Fieland’s poems, articles, and stories have appeared in journals and anthologies, such as Main Channel Voices, Echolocation, and Twisted Tongue. Margaret Fieland [...]
Melanie Sumner is the author of the novels The Ghost of Milagro Creek and The School of Beauty and Charm, as well as Polite Society, a collection of short stories. Sumner is the 2010 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, and 1995 recipient of the Whiting Award. She teaches creative writing [...]
Jennifer Grisanti is the author of Story Line: Finding Gold in Your Life Story. She is also a Writing Instructor for NBCs Writers on the Verge and a sought-after consultant and former studio executive who covered Medium, Girlfriends, The 4400, Numbers, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed, and many other hit series. Grisanti talks about [...]
Children’s author Jennifer Gladen is a teacher and mother of three, who lives and writes in Pennsylvania. Her children’s books—A Star in the Night and Teresa’s Shadow—were released by Guardian Angel Publishing last year. Gladen, who also writes stories and articles, launched her own Catholic e-zine: “My Light Magazine.” Gladen talks about her writing process, [...]
Nicholas Kazan’s latest play—Mlle. God, in which he reinvents Frank Wedekind’s famous Lulu, “creating an outrageous and muscular dark comedy, a paean to sex, art, and living in the millisecond”—premieres this week in Los Angeles. Kazan’s plays, including the Off Broadway hit Blood Moon with Dana Delaney, have been performed across the U.S. in New [...]
Charmaine Hammond is the author of On Toby’s Terms, which has been signed to become a motion picture. Toby, a Chesapeake Bay retriever with “personality plus,” has his own website in addition to the book. Hammond has been featured on many print, radio, and TV mediums, including CTV, CTSTV, SHAW, Edmonton Journal. She is in [...]
Jennifer Lieberman’s one-woman show Year of the Slut premieres in LA January 11 and 12th, before moving onto New York in February. A Canadian writer/performer, Lieberman has starred in several original theater pieces in Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles, and has penned a number of screenplays, stage plays, and a book of erotic poetry. [...]
Playwright Karl Gajdusek‘s greedy is about five people struggling with greed, hope, desire, and integrity in the wake of an emailed plea for money that promises big returns. The West Coast Premiere, presented by Red Dog Squadron, opens this week. Greedy was the first recipient of the Clubbed Thumb Biennual Playwright Commission, part of the four-time [...]
Jenny “Kasey Bomber” Barbee and Alex “Axles of Evil” Cohen are the authors of Down and Derby: the Insider’s Guide to Roller Derby” (Soft Skull Press). Barbee works at the Writers Guild of America and Cohen is a news anchor at LA-based NPR station KPCC. This writer/derby-girl duo talk about their journeys into derby, their writing [...]
Veteran journalist, author, and screenwriter Joel Harry Newman has been in the business for more than 25 years. His experience includes working as a reporter and editor for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner newspaper, business writer on staff at ADWEEK Magazine, and freelancing for publications as the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Hollywood Reporter, Details, L.A. [...]
Debra Eckerling is a professional writer and coach with expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking, as well as social media and live networking.
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The leader of Write On!, Debra has been a professional writer for more than 10 years. She has expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking. Write On! is a virtual - and live - writers support group, which helps writers of all abilities, mediums, and specialties take their projects to the next level.
