Online Class: Write a Great Beginning | May 1-3, 2025

In this newly updated online class, Write a Great Beginning with Will Allison, you’ll spend three intensive days learning how to craft a story opening that will make readers eager to turn the page..

Online Class: Become Your Own Best Editor | September 24-28, 2024

This brand-new segment of BYOBE offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at One Story’s editorial process. Daily online lessons will guide you through a case study of “The Dissection Question,” by Emma Cairns Watson (One Story #310). You’ll follow the story from submission to publication—studying actual marked-up drafts and extensive author-editor correspondence.

Long Drive Home: The Play | September 5 & 7, 2024

A stage adaptation of my second novel, Long Drive Home, has been selected for Theatre Aspen’s Solo Flights 2024 festival, featuring playwright Stephen Kaplan and director Hannah Ryan.

Long Drive Home Selected for Ridley Park Reads | October 2023

Thank you to the Ridley Park (PA) Library for selecting Long Drive Home for its fifth annual Community Reads event.

Long Drive Home: The Play | May 15, 2023

Playwright Stephen Kaplan is adapting my second novel, Long Drive Home, for the stage. Join us for a free reading of this work-in-progress at the cell theatre in New York City.

Panel Discussion: Is an Independent Editor Right for You? | March 9-11, 2023

AWP Conference & Bookfair, Seattle, Washington

Writers seeking feedback face a lot of options: Join a writers group? Enroll in a workshop? Attend a conference? Apply to MFA programs? This panel is for writers at any career stage who are curious about another option: working one-on-one with an independent editor. You’ll meet four veteran editors with diverse backgrounds in writing, lit mags, and book publishing. They’ll discuss the services editors provide, finding the right editor for your work, making the most of the relationship, and more.

* To learn more about my editorial services, please visit me at booth #1006 in the AWP Bookfair *

Just for Fun, a Reading from 2008

I recently learned that this reading from the 2008 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is available online. It’s an excerpt from my first novel, What You Have Left.