The Writer's Corner: Winter 2025
Join us for the first session of the new year this Monday January 13! Save the dates for these upcoming live, interactive sessions that you won't want to miss. We can't wait to see you there!
Join us in The Writer’s Corner this winter! Each session will feature inspiring discussions, guest hosts, interviews on craft, advice on all aspects of getting published, and a safe space for writers to get support and advice. Here’s a look at our next few sessions (check back for additional guests soon!) …
January 13 at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m.
Kathy Curto on Tapping the Senses [Sing our Senses to Help Write Our Stories]
Kathy Curto teaches at Sarah Lawrence College/The Writing Institute and Montclair State University as well as several nonprofit organizations and writing centers in the metropolitan area. She is the author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, on NPR, in the anthology Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in Barrelhouse, The Inquisitive Eater, Memoir Magazine, Oh Reader, The Mom Egg Review, Drift and Talking Writing among others. Kathy’s piece, “Still Cooking Side by Side” considered a “Modern Love in miniature” by The New York Times, was included in The Best of Tiny Love Stories in August 2021. She is co-founder of Key to the Castle Workshop and serves on the board of the Italian American Writers Association.
January 27 at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST - Monthly Open Discussion
This session will be an open forum for writers to discuss and share what’s on their minds. Bring your struggles, questions, and wisdom!
February 3 at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m.
Christie Tate for a Discussion on Craft
Christie Tate is an essayist and author who writes creative nonfiction and memoir. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Group, which was a Reese’s Book Club selection and has been translated into 19 languages. She is also the author of B.F.F.-- A Memoir of Friendship Lost & Found. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. Her essays have been nominated for Puschcart Prizes, and Kiese Laymon selected her essay, Promised Lands, as the winner of the New Ohio Review’s 2019 nonfiction contest. She writes about addiction, eating disorders, friendship, alienation, recovery, and her Grandma’s farm in Forreston, Texas. She grew up in Dallas and now lives in Chicago with her family. She has finally stopped telling people that she graduated first in her law school class. Please don’t hate her because she has no pets.
February 24 at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m.
Marion Roach Smith for a Discussion on Craft
Marion Roach Smith is the author of four books, all of which contain a large degree of memoir. Her most recent book is The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing--And Life, (Grand Central, 2011). Under the name Marion Roach, she is the author of The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair, (Bloomsbury, 2005); co-author with famed forensic pathologist Michael Baden, M.D., of Dead Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2001); and author of Another Name for Madness, (Houghton Mifflin, 1985).
A former staff member of The New York Times, she has written for The New York Times Magazine, Prevention, The Daily News, Vogue, Newsday, Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart Living, Discover and The Los Angeles Times. A former commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, until recently she had a talk show on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Sirius/XM 110.
Marion is a sought-after speaker on the power of telling one’s tale and the value of memoir. She is a long-time teacher of memoir and has taught thousands of people to write what they know.