When does a writer become a writer? When they start writing? When they publish a book or begin to teach writing? When I asked Eleanor Morse this question, she said she started […]
Eleanor Morse: Coming Home to Writing
Launch for the Love of It
Living on a four-square-mile patch of land surrounded by water, the launching of boats comes as no surprise to islanders. These days, boats parade down our main street on an almost regular […]
Authors at Peaks Fest’s Dock Day
On an island this busy, it may come as no surprise that the community hosts an annual event to celebrate, well, living here. “Dock Day” is one of the many events scheduled […]
Awards Shower Island Authors
If writers move to an island like Peaks Island for the quiet and retreat that protects and feeds their creative work, then they also need to learn how to hide. Hint: that […]
A Glimpse of Old Peaks Island
I live on an island where stories cling to patches of dirt and leaning buildings the way an oak leaf clings to a branch in winter. The porch of my own house, […]
Circumnavigating-the-Blogosphere Workshop
Are you an author, artisan, or small business owner who wants to manage your virtual presence on that vast real estate, the internet? Do you often feel you’re awash in a digital […]
Tom Bohan: A Blow with a Word Strikes Deeper
An interior wall of the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building bears the well-worn adage “The pen is mightier than the sword,” a saying attributed to the Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton (who, […]
Reading by Author of “City of Belief”
As ocean waves heighten and the north wind blows harder, the Peaks Island community grows tighter. Reasons to gather are as welcome as a warm mug of coffee on cold hands. This […]
Anne Sibley O’ Brien
Twenty five years ago this month, Anne Sibley O’Brien received a phone call, the phone call that writers long anticipate; an editor called who wanted to publish her book. Since then, O’Brien, […]
Nicole d’Entremont, “City of Belief”
From stories to soup to Sudden Fiction, Nicole d’Entremont is one of those writers who touches lives, over and over again – with and without her pen in hand. I caught up […]
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