Hi, folks!  The Brooklyn Book Festival is coming up next Sunday, September 21.  I've been before and it's an event-packed day with lots of authors, workshops and events.  A few...

Connection, Earthy and Ineffable   Margaret Van Every HOLDING HANDS WITH A STRANGER Librophilia (Tallahassee): 2014   Reviewed by Ellis Avery    Japanese innovators love to claim ancient precedent: when...

One of the most amazing things Natalie Harnett told the Columbia Fiction Foundry at her joint presentation with her literary agent, Kent Wolf, on September 6th was that she spent...

Character Sketch Template Ralph White Best selling author, Columbia MFA, and Fiction Foundry guest, Jean Kwok was kind enough to share her character sketch with me.  I modified it somewhat...

2011 Comes to Life in a Collection of Urban Haiku by Ellis Avery Review of Broken Rooms by poet Margaret Van Every There has been a recent trend in the US to...