Hope everyone has their tickets or reservations to Tuesday’s Andaz Pen Parentis Authorfest! It’s going to be a great time! If you haven’t yet reserved: click here and please note, it’s standing room only at this point! In the meantime, please read on for the first guest blog from Pen Parentis member Birgitte Rasine who is leaving […]
[ Read More...]Why we love guest bloggers
It is amazing to me to get to hear the stories of writers who are parents from far-flung places. I am so grateful to our members who have volunteered to add their voices to this blog! These last two weeks, thinking about how the daily routine of guest blogger and Pen Parentis member Geoff Kirsch up […]
[ Read More...]Ten tips on writing – by Geoff Kirsch (part 2)
Part 2 of our Hurricane Hiatus guest-blog by Geoff Kirsch… Like I said last week, I was recently asked to share my writing expertise with students in a high school memoir writing class. I thought I’d share the ten tips I offered them to you as well. You know, if you want to take advice from […]
[ Read More...]10 Tips for Writing by Geoff Kirsch (part 1)
While we are on Hurricane Hiatus, Geoff Kirsch from Juneau Alaska, will be guest blogging. See last week’s post for his bio. 10 Tips for Writing One of my favorite (and most hated) qualities of pre-school aged children is their penchant for bluntness. Over the past year, my daughter and her little parliament of classmates have […]
[ Read More...]The post-hurricane blog
Remember that old thing you learned in English class about the “types of literary conflict” where one was Man vs. Nature? Yeah. We’re losing that one. I suppose you’ve heard by now that the November 13th Pen Parentis Literary Salon was canceled. Our lovely host, the Andaz Wall Street, is not yet open for business […]
[ Read More...]Guest Blogger: FRANK HABERLE
We interrupt this two-part blog entry to bring you a quick note from Frank Haberle, last year’s Pen Parentis Writing Fellow! (It’s the last few days to submit to the 2012 Fellowship! Postmark deadline is April 18th – so get on it! Take it away, Frank!): Winning the 2011 Pen Parentis fellowship last spring came with […]
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