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MSW was part of a platform with Zia Durrani and Mira Stillman on William Dalrymple's Nine Lives at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County on September 19, 2010.

Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel was showcased by Writers' Journal (September/October 2010 issue: "Books for the Writers' Bookshelf")

Booklist praised Out of the Mountains

MSW at the West Virginiai Book Festival: Shouts and Hollers and in the Charleston Gazette .

Latest Review of Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel

Interview/Review of Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel

First review of short story collection, Out of the Mountains

MSW taught "Silver Scribes," a workshop for seniors in Little Falls, NJ from May through July, 2010.

Seated, from left, Marie Speziale, Rose Van Heest, Paul Van Heest, Basia Jaworski; Standing, from left, Anthony Taschler, Charlotte Eitel, MSW, Frances Schimpf, Irene Hunt, Rosalie Paddock, Jackie Klein, Dee Boonstra, and Montclair State student assistant Ena Gomez.

MSW visited the Write! group at Montclair Library, Montclair, New Jersey Thursday, May 6, 2010.

Meredith Sue Willis's novel Trespassers is Hamilton Stone Editions'
First e-book!   E-book ISBN: 978-1-4524-1669-4
Download for $4.99!
Click here for formats and free sample!

(For the paperback edition, go to Hamilton Stone's catalog)

Article "Apply Film Techniques to Fiction Writing" is in the April 2010 print issue ofThe Writer Magazine. A sample from the article is free online here. You may have to register for the site, but there is no charge.

MSW's article "Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips" has received the 2009 Appalachian Heritage Magazine Plattner Award in non-fiction.

MSW and Alice Robinson-Gilman presented a platform about Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County on February 28, 2010, 11:00 a.m. See article on Patch.

 

 

MSW read at Luna Stage on February 28, 2010

 

New Commentary on Trespassers

Fall 2009: "Tara White" nominated for a Pushcart Prize

 

...with MSW story “The Roy Critchfield Scandals.”We All Live Downstream: Writings About Mountaintop Removal is edited by Jason Howard and published by Motes Books.

 

 

 

 

 

Short Story "My Most Embarrassing" now online at Two Hawks Quarterly

 

June 13, 2009 MSW was part of the The SOMe Book Fest, a celebration of local authors and illustrators.  SOMe Book Nook is located at 15 Scotland Road inside Sparkhouse Kids, South Orange, NJ 07079. Call 973-821-5227

A new edition of Quilt Piece with a sequence of poems by Jane Wilson Joyce and MSW's story “Family Knots.” It has been out of print for some time, and this new edition is really lovely. Order dirctly from the publisher for $12.50 plus $2.00 to help with postage:GNOMON PRESS, P.O. Box 475 , Frankfort, KY 40602-0475

 

 

 

MSW is a listed contributor in a beautiful hardover book from A& C Black, London, The Bloomsbury Guide to Illustrated Children's Books. She wrote the sections on "Writing Dialogue" and "Avoiding Patronizing the Reader."

 

 

 

MSW's article "Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips" is available online in the Winter 2009 issue of Appalachian Heritage.

 

Prose Narrative class with MSW was featured in Madison/Chatham This Week

 

 

MSW story "Tara White was published by Bloodroot Literary Magazine . Read an excerpt here.

Meredith Sue Willis read "My Boy Elroy" from In the Mountains of America at the “Apples for Appalachia” Festival at the Ardsley United Methodist Church, Ardsley, New York on October 17, 2008.

MSW did worshops on "Narration in the Novel" and "Finding Material for Short Stories" at the West Virginia Literary Arts Program in Morgantown, WV on June 21, 2008 in Morgantown, WV. See http://www.wvwriters.org/blog.html (scroll down to entry for June 10).

MSW presented "Writing the Chapter Book for Children" at the North Wildwood Beach Writers Conference, June 5, 2008. See article.

MSW gave the platform We Were Your Children: 1968 - 2008 at the Sunday morning platform of the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County on May 11, 2008.

An interview with MSW appeared in Process, the Playwright's Theatre Playbill (Playwrights Theatre 33 Green Village Road, PO Box 1295, Madison, NJ 07940 http://www.ptnj )

MSW's memoir piece "Red Rover, Red Rover" appeared in the Appalachian Writers Guild Anthology MMVIII, edited by L.G. Wise (Grrenvue Press, http://www.GreenvuePress 2008)

MSW has an article in the Spring 2008 (Volumme 39, Number 3) 40th anniversary issue of Teachers & Writers Magazine: "I'm Still a Writer-in-the-Schools."

MSW read from Trespassers at the '68-'08 event at Altshul Auditorium atColumbia University t on Saturday April 26, 2008. This was part of a four day remembrance and discussion of the Columbia student strikes of 1968 in which she participated. See her novel Trespassers.



MSW read from Oradell at Sea and led a discussion at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling, West Virginia on March 4, 2008. See article.

 


MSW read "What I Learned in First Grade" at the Associated Writng Programs Conference on February 1, 2008, part of a collection on schooling and education called After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School , edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler.

MSW reviewed Blood Kin, by Mark Powell, in Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine ( Volume 23, Number 2).

MSW was "Villager of the Month" in her town of South Orange, New Jersey for November 2007.

MSW taught the nonfiction workshop at the 30th Annual Appalachian Writers Workshop at Hindman, Kentucky, July 29 - August 3, 2007.

 

Billie of Fish House Lane was the Two Towns One Book Children's Book forMaplewood and South Orange, New Jeresy. Events took place Thursday, July12 and Tuesday, July 17, 2007. (See a review of the book here.

MSW's Article on on Beginning Your Novel Step-by-Step appeared in the July issue of The Writer .

Meet the Author, a Local Access t.v. program (Channel  19 South Orange, Channel 35 Maplewood) featured MSW in spring 2007.

MSW received the Sal Santaniello Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Ethical Society of Essex County on May 19, 2007. This is an award for "indefatigable service to the Ethical Culture Movement and the advancement of world justice." Click here for pictures.

MSW and Alice Robinson-Gilman presented a program at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County on April 15, 2007 called Books That Moved Us.

Story "Triangulation" in the Winter 2006-2007 issue of the Saranac Review.

Article from Appalachian Heritage by Phyllis Wilson Moore about MSW. (You need Acrobat reader to read this. Free download at Adobe Acrobat Reader . More on this issue.

Meredith Sue Willis gave her lecture on "Ethics and Writing for Children" at the South Orange Public Library November 16, 2006.

 


MSW, Jeff Mann, Crystal Wilkinson preparing to read
at Berea College

On Friday, November 10, 2006, MSW read with Crystal Wilkinson and Jeff Mann at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, for the Appalachian Heritage' First Featured Writers Reading.

The Fall 2006 issue of Appalachian Heritage featured MSW (a story and an essay) as well as a biographical essay by Phyllis Wilson Moore; a reappraisal of her 1981 novel HIGHER GROUND by Keith Maillard; and a personal essay about how we grew up by my oldest friend, West Virginia University President David C. Hardesty. For information on getting a copy, go to Appalachian Heritage.

MSW taught "Beginning Your Novel" at the 2006 Writers Conference at Penn October 14, 2006 at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. In its 12th year the Writers Conference at Penn includes over 80 workshops  and 300 attendees with topics ranging widely within fiction, non fiction, publishing and professional services. For information about next year's conference, visit www.pennwritersconference.org .

MSW was part of the splendid Twenty Fifth Appalachian Writers' Festival at  Emory & Henry College September 21 - 23 , 2006. See blog entries too.

MSW read with poets Iris N. Schwartz and Madeline Artenberg on June 27, 2006  at the Clement Soto Velez Cultural Center on Suffolk Street in NYC.

On Saturday, May 13, 2006, MSW gave a reading from her latest book for children, Billie of Fish House Lane  , to children and adults at The Goat Café in South Orange, New Jersey.

April 9, 2006  Sunday: Ethical Culture Society of Essex County Sunday morning platform-- MSW and Alice Robinson-Gilman lead a member platform. 11:00 AM, 516 Prospect Street, Maplewood, New Jersey.

April 5, 2006, MSW read her short story "Tales of the Abstract Expressionist" (online and in Dwight's House and Other Stories) to students and professors at Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey.

MSW gave the platform at the Essex Ethical Culture Society on Sunday, February 19-- on writing for children by reading what children write.

Billie of Fish House Lane was a finalist in the Foreword Magazaine Book of the Year Awards. Billie Lee, who narrates her own story, is, says the publisher, "smart and sassy." She's eleven, part of a mixed race family. The book is for kids 8 - 12.

There is an interview by Nathan Leslie of Meredith Sue Willis in the Spring 2006  Main Street Rag magazine.

Meredith Sue Willis sends out an occasional newsletter with commentary on old, new, and rediscovered books called Books For Readers. To get the free newsletter, send a blank email to  Readerbooks-subscribe@topica.com   To unsubscribe, send a blank email to Readerbooks-unsubscribe@topica.com. You may also read the newsletter online at Books For Readers.

For reviews of recent MSW books, go to her book page.  For a review of MSW's recent short story collection Dwight's House and Other Stories, click here.   Another review from the American Book Review can be read here.

See MSW's article about activist poet Don West at The Ethical Review of Books.