In late May 2022, we will begin hosting a variety of in-person writers’ events here at the lodge in the heart of Underhill Center, Vermont. We are restoring a former hunting lodge on approximately an acre of land located along…
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15 Stevensville RoadUnderhill Center, VermontV: 920.256.9449 You are invited to support the Green Mountain Writers Guild, soon to become a registered non-profit organization with the mission of furthering the craft of writing in Vermont and worldwide. In the summer of…
“The most important task of this moment is to generate a base of people who are eager to practice perceiving the complexity and interdependency in every aspect of our lives.” – Nora Bateson Steve Thorp, editor of Unpsychology Magazine, will…
On Tuesday, November 16, at 6:30 PM (EST), poet Lizzy Fox will be a featured guest. After Darlene Witte leads introductions all around, we will hear from Lizzy Fox reading her work, talking about the issues that motivated her to…
Anyone who’s seen Harold and Maude more than once begins to notice interesting tidbits and trivia. The screenplay for Harold and Maude was Colin Higgins’ thesis for the UCLA screenwriting MFA program. The professor teaching the course told Colin that…
Of course I signed up for a Writer’s Workshop entitled Good Naked. I saw her before I entered the room, instantly sensing an attractive alpha female, having taken a flash inventory of the participants as I opened the glass door.…
“Anthracis has now been published, and I want to thank you again.” In Anthracis, the first novel of the author’s alphabetical microbial mystery series, the spectacular southwestern desert is threatened with an unexplainable outbreak of deadly Bacillus anthracis spores. Maya Maguire,…
As we begin to emerge from quarantine… On Friday, after the workshop, I got the J&J poke. After hearing about a biker friend who got Covid, I became even more cautious. I was walking pretty well after getting out of the hospital,…
Octavia Butler was a sci-fi author prominent in the 70s, 80s, and the 90s. She died in 2006, but seems to be having a current revival of interest. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became…