Rachelle Rea Cobb I always knew I wanted to be a writer, but my fascination with what would one day become my genre didn’t happen until middle school, when I subscribed to the monthly boxes of Love Presents books. It was about that time that I started penning...
April McGowan Why I Write About Hard Things I love contemporary stories that connect to the world around me. I identify with them, the struggles, the triumphs, the heartbreak, and the overcomers—those who overcome obstacles that are seemingly hopeless and come...
Roseanna M. White The Air I Breathe Words are the air I breathe. This is something I’ve been saying since college. I was a tour guide for my school, and it was pretty common for people to ask, “So what do you plan to do after you graduate?” I...
Melody Carlson On Being a Writer It took me well into adulthood to figure out I was a writer. Sure, I was always writing . . . anything from journaling and poetry, to crafting letters to the editor or corresponding with family and friends. But it wasn’t until...
Susan Maas My Journey as a Writer Childhood As a third grader I decided that I would someday write children’s books. I wrote constantly—short stories, plays, poetry. My first published work was a nonfiction story called “The Wonderful Woods” that my sixth grade...
Sara Goff My Story “Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.” ~Rubem Alves, Brazilian philosopher and educator We all need purpose in our lives. Our career paths are winding, our children grow up, we relocate, learn to let go of...
Dina Sleiman Lessons Learned Along the Journey My writing journey began…honestly, I’m not quite sure. In fifth grade when I wrote that short story about an alien for class? When I decided to study creative writing in college or pursue a writing MA? Maybe that...