Fall Retreat is Now Open for Registration
This fall, October 24th-26th, Inkwell will be holding its eleventh retreat at Oriental Land, located at the end of Line 17. This is Inkwell’s biggest event each year, and I always love the energy of seeing Inkwell writers gather together in one place to learn more about writing. To see what retreat looks like, you…
Follow Up to Shanghai Voices Reading
by Ryan Thorpe This last Wednesday night we had an amazing second Shanghai Voices with four very different readers, but I enjoyed all of them in their own ways. David Tait was first, and with his dry humor and mix of the personal and the political, the blunt truth blended with apt metaphors, won over the…
Chekhov quote
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. . . It is comprehensible when I write: “The man sat on the grass,” because it is clear and does not detain one’s attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: “The tall, narrow-chested…