About the Book
"Best writing from the first three years of the Write Here, Write Now workshops for adult writers in Baltimore!" Late night at the corner diner. Struggling with that character who just won't speak to you or searching for that perfect word. Laboring over gallons of coffee, greasy comfort food, and blank notebook pages. Called by the feelings or ideas that compel a writer to set down her thoughts whenever she can find the time, wondering whether there are others out there doing the same. This is why writers' workshops are so important-they are a place where one's passion and efforts can be shared, acknowledged, and improved in the presence of supportive, honest, risk-taking fellow writers. The goal of the "Write Here, Write Now" workshops is to provide such a place.

Founded in Baltimore in 2005, the workshops have grown to explore various genres and serve the area's resurging literary arts scene. Welcome to the first anthology of select prose and poetry from these workshops. Readers will recognize themselves and their own journeys, and be inspired and moved by the honesty, beauty, and courage in this collection. Here is the reward for all those late nights, early mornings, and stolen moments of writing during the day. Remember to take it with you the next time you head to the diner.

About the Author
Christine Stewart is a program manager for literature at the Maryland State Arts Council. She was an artist-in-residence with Creative Alliance in Baltimore where she continues to contribute to the Write Here, Write Now workshops, which she founded. She has an M.A. and M.F.A. in creative writing and poetry, is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and has been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Blackbird, The Cortland Review and other literary magazines. Her ten minute play, Anesthesia (about where we 'go' under anesthesia--the surprising world and choices we find there), was performed this past June in a showcase for local playwrights.

Recently awarded an Individual Artist Grant in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council, she mentors adults and teens, teaches in extensions programs, provides editing and proofreading services, and is currently developing workshops for juvenile detention centers and shelters for homeless women and children.

She is currently at work on a memoir entitled In Residence, about the first year of her three year residency. She is represented by Tracy Brown of Wendy Sherman Associates in New York. For samples of her work, please see “Poetry Samples” and excerpts from her two novels, Killing the Good Girl and American Mystic.

List Price

$16.95

ISBN

978-1934074329

Specs

256 pp., B&W 5 x 8 in Perfect Bound on White

Editor

Christine Stewart

Project Manager(s)

Deirdre Darragh, '08; Brielle Fiorillo, '08

Translation/Notes