writing misbehaving women who find their way
Editor’s note: This story won honorable mention in the “Write Your Own Lesson in Manners” contest. The challenge was to select from a list of prompts from the book A Lesson in Manners and write a story using those items.
The Midwest Writing Center has announced that the terrific novelist Mary Howard, author of Discovering the Body and The Girl with Wings, is the 2016 winner of the Great River Writers Retreat. Congratulations to Mary! She’ll be reading at the
Editor’s note: This story won second place in the “Write Your Own Lesson in Manners” contest. The challenge was to select from a list of prompts from the book A Lesson in Manners and write a story using those items.
Well, this is a new medium for me. My words have appeared in print and online, in radio and audio recordings, in video and on stage, and now they’re going to be stamped in cement on a Muscatine sidewalk somewhere.
I’m very pleased and humbled to be the featured writer over at Andilit, a site I’ve been following for a while and which yields excellent, thoughtful resources for writers. In a sea of people trying to make me rich so