Category: events
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A poem every hour?
From the Behind Our Eyes email list for disabled writers, I learned of the 2025 Poetry Marathon in May. This unique event encourages participants to write a poem every hour for 24 hours. (I’m not sure how they handle sleep.) Registration begins April 22. We’re excited to announce the dates for the 2025 Poetry Marathon! This…
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Find me on the radio
This week, I appeared on radio station WVIA’s Art Scene promoting the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group conference The Write Stuff in March. Host Erika Funke interviewed me as the current president of the group and Donna Brennan, our conference chair. For more information on the GLVWG Write Stuff conference, click here. To learn more about WVIA, click here. To scroll through their daily ArtSCENE broadcasts, click here.
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Writing Craft Books at Easton Library
I reached out to my friends at Easton Area Public Library, where I have free monthly writers workshops on the second Thursday of the month*, asking about what writing craft books they have in their collection. (It looks like most of them are cataloged around 808 if you plan on browsing the…
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Upcoming Activities for Writers
I give a monthly writers workshop as a volunteer at Easton Area Public Library (main branch, downtown Easton, Pa.) through April on the second Thursday of the month. The workshop portion will run roughly from 6 to 7:30 p.m., but I will be onsite by 5:30 p.m. in case anyone wants to socialize or…
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Workshop: Setting Goals
I give a monthly writers workshop as a volunteer at Easton Area Public Library (main branch, downtown Easton, Pa.) on the second Thursday of the month. So, even if we haven’t announced a formal topic, you can mark your calendar and know that something is happening for writers at the library. January’s workshop will…
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Announcing an end-of-year giveaway
I am a member of the Panera Sip Club. Their monthly beverage subscription lessens my guilt when I host client and author meetings at Panera (and I do have a local favorite— it’s the one in the Southmont Shopping Center in Bethlehem Township, Pa.) They sent me an email telling me how many beverages…
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Meanwhile, at the library…
We had our last official writer’s workshop of the year at Easton Area Public Library Main Branch in downtown Easton. Our hosts at the library will be setting up our 2025 events as a recurring writers’ workshop meeting at the library on the second Thursday of the month, starting with our January session on writing…
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Get your Christmas reading ready
M.Christian’s short story collection In Control released in print, ebook and on Kindle Unlimited. Larry Sceurman, over at Larry’s Stories, provides some holiday reflection on his Substack. He’s written some extra editions to celebrate the Christmas season, including one this weekend that will discuss gift-giving. Click here for Larry’s Stories. Speaking of other Substacks, I had…
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Writing Workshops
I will be hosting one final writing workshop of the 2024 year: Writers Mix-Up Mash Up at Easton Area Public Library (Main Branch, downtown Easton) on Monday, December 16 at 6 p.m. Register here. This evening workshop is aimed at building writing community and offering space for writers to work together or independently to reach…
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