wordswimmer

When I was much younger and beginning my studies as a graduate student in the newly designed MFA Writing for Children program at Vermon...

Fans of Printz Honor Award winner and National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch ( Kill Switch,  Freewill , Inexcusable , Pieces ,...

If you want to write, says Chris Lynch, the Printz Honor Award-winning author of several highly acclaimed young adult novels , you have to...

Two writers--Jack O'Rourke and J. Irvin Kuns--were kind enough to share their thoughts on risk-taking in response to my comments about t...

"If I'm writing, and I'm writing realistic fiction, I have to come up with the goods. Otherwise, what am I doing? So I have mad...

Staring down at a blank page on some mornings can feel like standing on the edge of a high-diving board afraid to leap into the unknown. Fro...