Biweekly Memoir Writing Workshop
“Memoir isn’t the summary of a life; it’s a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It’s not; it’s a…
Stephen Kastner
Stephen Kastner writes essays, science fiction, memoir, poetry, and is currently working on a screenplay and novel about his Quaker ancestor Thomas Maule, who was arrested for defending the wise women accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692. He leads the Green Mountain Writers Group in Vermont and creates digital media professionally as DesignWise Studios.
Follow his Antediluvian Attitudes on Substack: https://stephenkastner.substack.com
2nd Annual Vermont Poetry Festival
The Green Mountain Writers Group celebrated National Poetry Month on April 20, 2024. We enjoyed the opportunity to meet in person at Underhill Center’s historic District No. 5 Schoolhouse on a special day dedicated to poets and fans of poetry At 10 AM, we…
Celebrating unpsychology Magazine’s Issue #10: Edges
“unpsychology magazine publishes writing, art, video and music related to the broad theme of how humans see and experience the world in complex and troubled times.“ I attended a creative workshop with the magazine’s editors and about 20 individuals from around…
Sequential Art at the 2nd Annual Non-Fiction Comic Fest
On Saturday, November 18, 2023, I attended the Second Annual Non-Fiction Comics Fest at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont. The 3-day event featured panel discussions, workshops, and a main floor exhibit space filled with cartoonists displaying their non-fiction…
When AI Comes a-Knockin’
…it’s “Katy Bar the Door!” The Fear Factor is more than an old Joe Rogan series, it’s also a book by Abigail Marsh who studied the brains of both psychopathic children and extreme altruists and found that the answer lies…
Tarot, a Cure for Writer’s Block?
The term writer’s block was first coined in New York City in 1947 by Edmund Bergler, a well-known disciple of Sigmund Freud. Bergler, an Austrian psychiatrist called writer’s block a form of “psychic masochism, the unconscious wish to defeat one’s…
Poetry & Performance; a manifesto of sorts by 25 poets
This publication by the Green Mountain Writers Group (GMWG) in Underhill, Vermont introduces an innovative model of consensus leadership. As a community of writers, we believe that everyone’s voice deserves to be heard. The consensus model ensures that every GMWG…
1st Annual Vermont Poetry Festival
When: Apr 30, 2023, 10 AM to 4 PMWhere: Historic District 5 Schoolhouse, 32 Pleasant Valley Road, Underhill, VT The Green Mountain Writers Group (GMWG) will host the 1st Annual Vermont Poetry Festival in Underhill Center at the Historic District…
AI, friend or foe? What I discovered in Bing chat
Fear of robots has been sweeping the ranks… Today, I opened the Edge browser, which I rarely use. That’s the browser which is linked by default to open the screen prompts that appear when the Windows operating system on my…
GMWG to Publish “Poetry & Performance – Volume One”
We are compiling poetry for the release of the first Green Mountain Writers Group (GMWG) print publication intended to showcase the work of our established and emerging member poets from around Vermont and the world. GMWG is currently requesting the…