Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line

What, Why, How: Tamra Wilson

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What: I write both fiction and nonfiction. I’ve written stories since I was a young child to my stint as high school yearbook editor. In high school I wrote a fiction column for the school paper. That was my first real venture into characterization and dialog. After a career as an editor and PR director, I’m now a columnist in Western North Carolina and enjoy ten minutes of fame every other … [Read more...]

Blackout Poetry – as creative as you want to get

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A mix of writing and visual art All you need to make blackout poetry is imagination and the ability to let your mind take creative leaps with given text. Even my logical, engineer-minded husband enjoyed this project when we participated in a workshop after my reading for In the Context of Love at the East Tawas Library. Any age can participate, too. My ten-year old granddaughter enjoys making … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Mitzi Szereto

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What: I create books that are all across the literary spectrum. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s being pigeonholed as a writer, so I like to mix it up and get readers wondering what I’ll come up with next. My last book Florida Gothic was a horror novel. My new book is Ladies of Gothic Horror (A Collection of Classic Stories), a tribute to the women who helped pave the way for today’s female … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Mary Mackey

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What: I write poetry, novels, and screenplays, but I never intentionally set out to become a writer. Instead, I came into the world as a poet and storyteller, telling stories and making up rhymed poems before I could read. If this were 7,000 years ago, and we were all sitting around a campfire, I would probably be retelling our myths, lying about my heroic encounters with fantastic beasts, … [Read more...]

What, Why, How: Thaddeus Rutkowski

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What: I write short fiction: short stories and flash fiction. The cut-off between flash fiction and short stories, it seems, is one thousand words, according to literary journals, and my pieces are usually on the thousand-word border. The main thing is, I want to tell stories: about people and what they do, or about myself and what I do, and I want to comment on those stories in obvious or less … [Read more...]