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Robert Frost: Tragedy, Craft, and the Quiet Fire Beneath the Snow

A Green Mountain Writers feature for those who missed our recent Monday Morning Poetry Session… Robert Frost is often introduced as Vermont’s beloved poet laureate, a gentle observer of woods, stone walls, and snowy evenings. We recite his lines in school, quote him on calendars, and imagine him walking country lanes with a notebook in […]

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GMWG’s Guide to Writing & Requesting Book Reviews

“As a reviewer, you bring together the two strands of accurate, analytical reading and strong, personal response when you indicate what the book is about and what it might mean to a reader (by explaining what it meant to you). In other words, reviewers answer not only the WHAT but the SO WHAT question about […]

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Finding Felicity in the Fields of Vermont

Author Robert Merrick Fuller launches memoir with Green Mountain Writers Group on Zoom… In a world that often rushes past life’s quiet moments, Robert Merrick Fuller has chosen to slow down, look back, and offer something rare: a memoir not of fame or spectacle, but of meaning. His debut book, A Horse-Drawn Sickle Bar Cutter: […]

TikTok for Authors Seriously?

TikTok for Authors… go where your audience has gone

#BookTok is a hashtag used by authors and digital content creators who feature book recommendations, reviews and memes. Professor Sut Jhally, founder of the Media Education Foundation once said, “Advertisers (authors) have to go to where the audience is if they want to sell products (books). They have no option but to go where the […]

Freewriting and Low Stakes Writing

Freewriting and Low Stakes Writing

Peter Elbow is a professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst… where he also directed the Writing Program from 1996 until 2000. He writes about theory, practice, and pedagogy, and has authored several books and papers. He is one of the pioneers of freewriting and a passionate advocate for the democratization of […]

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