Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Stephen Silha

May 6th, 2016 - Posted in

  Stephen Silha is a freelance writer, facilitator, and futurist who communicates about what makes communities and relationships work.  He has reported for The Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star, Vashon Beachcomberand various magazines and blogs.  He knew James Broughton, was mentored by him, and was present at his death in 1999.  BIG JOY: The Adventures of James Broughton is his first […]

Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Roger Fernandes

April 10th, 2016 - Posted in

  Roger Fernandes of the Lower Elwha Band of the Klallam Indians is a renowned story teller and artist living in Seattle, WA. The true power of storytelling comes when the moisture of the teller’s breath gives life and power to the story.”  ~ Roger Fernandes

Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Laurel Saville

March 15th, 2016 - Posted in

Laurel Saville is an award-winning author of numerous books, articles, essays, and short fiction. Her work has appeared in the LA Times Magazine, The Bark, NYTimes.com, Good Housekeeping, The Bennington Review, Ellipses, House Beautiful and other publications. She is also a corporate communications consultant, has taught at the College of St. Rose and Western Connecticut State […]

Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Jonathan Tasini

March 1st, 2016 - Posted in

  Jonathan Tasini is a political/organizing/economic strategist. President of the Economic Future Group, a consultancy that has worked in a couple of dozen countries on five continents over the past 20 years; his goal is to find the “white spaces” that need filling, the places to make connections and create projects to enhance the great work […]

Prose, Poetry & Purpose – K.M. Weiland

January 18th, 2016 - Posted in

K.M. Weiland lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives primarily on chocolate truffles and espresso. She is the IPPY and NIEA Award-winning and internationally published author of the Amazon bestsellers Outlining Your Novel and Structuring Your Novel, as well as Jane Eyre: The Writer’s Digest Annotated Classic. She writes historical and speculative fiction from her home in western […]

Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Harold Taw

November 3rd, 2015 - Posted in

Harold Taw is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. His debut novel was Adventures of the Karaoke King (Lake Union Publishing 2011). His writing has been featured on NPR, in a New York Timesbestselling anthology, and in The Seattle Times; his screenplay DOG PARK has garnered recognition in domestic and international film festivals and competitions. Harold wrote the book for two musicals […]

Prose, Poetry & Purpose – Rob Carney

October 12th, 2015 - Posted in

  ROB CARNEY, a Washington native, earned a BA in English from Pacific Lutheran University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, completing his PhD at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. His most recently published collection of work, 88 MAPS, is about the places, times, and wildness we should say yes to, and […]

Dr. Marilyn Cochran Mosley is a retired school psychologist. Prior to that, she has been a counselor at the college level both at the University of Washington and at Grinnell College (Iowa). She began working in the public school system in Washington in 1973 and later traveling as an itinerant to remote communities in Alaska […]

Honenberger’s novel “Catcher, Caught” is a Pen/Faulkner Foundation selection for its Writers-in-Schools program. A fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she appears regularly on literary panels and festivals. Along with “Waltzing Cowboys” (2009) and “White Lies” (2006), all three of her novels were nominees for the Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Her […]

  Anjali Mitter Duva is an Indian-American writer raised in France. She is the author of Faint Promise of Rain (She Writes Press, October 2014). After completing graduate studies in urban planning and civil engineering at MIT and launching a career in infrastructure planning, she found the call of storytelling too great to resist. A […]