Tag: Guild News
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This Summer: Journal with the Guild!
Kyra Wilson Cook is the Founding Director of the MetroWest Writers’ Guild. (She’s still really busy, but finding her way back to blogging for the Guild.) To know New England in the summer time is to know seasonal, regional mass migration. The students leave–back to their hometowns in various states and countries, some already looking…
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We’re Still Here! (You’re in the right place!)
Kyra Wilson Cook is the Founding Director of the MetroWest Writers’ Guild. She’s also… really busy. And… maybe not as good with the tech as she thought she was. You can reach her at Kyra@metrowestwriters.org. Once upon a time, there was a woman who had two young kids who answered the call to head up…
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This November, We Turn the Page
Written by Kyra Wilson Cook, Founding Director of the MetroWest Writers’ Guild We’re a community that came together starting back in 2018 when MetroWest Massachusetts needed regional leadership for a beloved November writing challenge. This matters, because we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for that beautiful idea that writing is more fun when there…
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Save the Date! We’re Celebrating Books and Writing in December!
Last December, we welcomed HUNDREDS of readers and writers to the Writers’ Loft in Hudson for a day of book launches, book sales, and joyful celebration of all things literary! We’re doing it AGAIN on Saturday, December 7th! Save the date! We are so excited to do this event again and we hope you’ll join…
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You Don’t Have to Use It All
By Daphne James Huff It’s taken me almost seven years and over a dozen published books to realize one very simple thing: You don’t have to use it all. Sounds simple, but it’s been a long road to get there! What’s taken me the longest to accept is that you don’t have to use all of…
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Short Month? Try Short Stories: The Form for Breaking, Bending, and Painting
Cassie Duncanson (she/her) is a spec-fic writer, who works as a proposal writer for environmental labs by day. She has an MFA from Portland State University and was a Tin House YA Workshop scholar. Her work has appeared in Gingerbread House Lit Mag, Fiddlehead Folio, and others. You can find her on instagram at @glutenwitch.…
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A Great End-of-Year for the Guild!
The Guild celebrated the launch of the Fiddlehead Folio with a Literary Extravaganza celebration in partnership with the Writers’ Loft! The Guild also received two grants at the end of the year! The Guild is deeply grateful for the Writers’ Loft in Hudson, MA for hosting us for our 1st annual Literary Extravaganza and Book…
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Fiddlehead Folio Preview: Meet C. N. Jeffrey!
C. N. Jeffrey contributed one of the longer stories of the inaugural Fiddlhead Folio. As the editor putting up this post, I will write a short confession: I was really, *really* hoping that she would submit this piece and that we’d have the chance to publish it. I am proud we’ve given it a place…
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Fiddlehead Folio Preview: Meet Lindsay Clark!
Lindsay Clark is a Guild leader and one of the authors of the 2023 Fiddlehead Folio! We’re excited to feature her store, The Tiger, as part of the journal. What inspired you to write your story? How does that inspiration manifest in this work? The seed of my story was formed in January 2023, when…
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Fiddlehead Folio Preview: Meet E.A. Brady!
E.A. Brady is one of the authors featured in the first volume of our literary journal, The Fiddlehead Folio! Her short story, Superhero in Aisle Six, is a touching read that we know you will enjoy. What inspired you to write your story? How does that inspiration manifest in this work? The seed for this…