The 2018 Mississippi Book Festival is this Saturday, August 18! Here’s the SCHEDULE. This will be my second year…
It’s been a minute—five years actually—since I organized a writing workshop. Here’s my history with that: 2010 – Co-director of…
Five years ago yesterday I drove down to Fairhope, Alabama, to get together with a group of folks who were…
110 years ago, in 1908, 500 “free thinking people” seeking “their own special utopia” established the town of Fairhope, Alabama…
Eight of the twenty-six authors who contributed essays (and the Foreword) to Southern Writers on Writing have new books out…
This week I will be joining four of the twenty-six contributors to SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING at two events in…
I just scored a 3.08 on a scale of 1 to 5 on the Authentic Happiness Inventory designed by folks…
I had never heard the Latin phrase, “memento mori,”until a couple of weeks ago when we were in New Orleans,…
I am beyond thrilled with the first two reviews for SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING! Ed Tarkington’s review at Chapter 16,…
It’s almost May. But before we say goodbye to April, I have one final event at which I’ will be…