CONTRIBUTORS Alex Andy Phuong—Alhambra, CA Ann Aubitz—Bloomington, MN Anne Goodwin—Nottingham, UK Anita Haas—Madrid, Spain Avijit Roy—Kolkata, India Barbara ...

Tess Galati, Ph.D. You’re starting a writing project? Great! Just don’t start spinning out sentences right away. If you do that you’ll invite the gods of neg...

Essay By Christine St. Germain I guess I became a writer when my Mom tried forcing me to write paragraphs whenever I got in trouble, and I decided to get ahe...

By Wendy Brown-Báez During times when we are facing profound loss and grief, our writing practice may be a way to cope or we may suddenly feel speechless wit...

By Nadia Giordana Laurie Byro’s poetry in her book, D’EUX & Other Sorrows, left me speechless, in the kind of way that only happens when one is moved to feel...

Writing Circles for Healing by Wendy Brown Baez offers writing workshops where you can learn how to write your memoir, a personal essay, or sharpen your skil...

Tame the Critic, Empower the Creator By Tess Galati Writing isn’t keyboarding, or wordsmithing, or editing. It isn’t talking on the screen, blurting out what...

PHRASE By Robert Boucheron Fresh from sleep in the morning, while my body is busy washing, clothing and feeding itself, my mind needs something to do. It tos...

How do you get your writing brain in action? For me, it's not as much about rituals as it is about making the decision to write. If my inner mantra is saying...

As an educator in the 21st century, blogging was a wonderful tool for me. I had an easy way to post short bits of information that could help a variety of pe...

When someone upsets me, I tend to react. Sometimes I write a letter to the editor, or maybe I never return to a certain inconsiderate store. I’ve also been k...

ARTICLE FROM WINK ISSUE 2: As a writer, you should strive to be as grammatically correct as possible. After all the editing, writing still comes down to just...

Short stories (up to 1500 words) and flash fiction (about 500-750 words): Setting aside the biggest factor, limited space, what do I say when people ask me w...