They tell you that the path to becoming a writer is either MFA or NYC. I've thought about an MFA. I've attended the info sessions at writing conferences. I'v...

When the new Little Women was set to release last Christmas, many people were asking this question: do we really need another Little Women? Aren't there so m...

I found out I'd been accepted to Elsewhere Studios for two months while I was in Paris with Kerri. It felt important because these were the first people to e...

Not everyone is a Jo or even wants to be one. There are plenty of Jos out there: strong-willed women who love to climb trees, who would happily challenge a b...

The girls next to me in the first showing of Little Women were chatting all through the previews. But I knew they had read the book, because one of their mom...

“If I was a girl in a book this would all be so easy,” Jo March tells her mother in the newest adaptation of Little Women, released on Christmas Day 2019. An...

People who are born to make things--to make photographs or essays or paintings--are faced too often with the choice between earning money and creating art. ...

One of my Awake readers recently wrote to me: "I have a writer trapped inside of me." If you feel like this too, I think it's time to set that writer free. I...

I woke up after midnight, when John was just coming in from his celestial observations. “It’s today,” I told him, muffled by sleep. “It’s Literary Sojourn.”...

Nearly every presenter said with enthusiasm, “I’m so grateful to present this to people who already know what I’m talking about!” It was a shared sentiment;...

Bronson Alcott notoriously didn't translate well onto the page. In life, he was lauded as charming, a conversationalist that could hold his audience rapt fo...

Wyeths in the Farnsworth Art Museum Memoirists, of course, spend a lot of time thinking about the past--so it's perhaps no wonder that the end of the year is...

15,000 writers gathered at the Los Angeles Convention Center last weekend, sporting their quirky outfits and thick glasses and carrying canvas tote bags for ...