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Latest Danny Williams' Essay--Informative and Funny:
June 2025 Adventures in the English Language

See them all here.

 

 

 

 

Half Day Workshop with
Meredith Sue Willis

Saturday, July 12, 2025
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
By Zoom
$125

For Information, Click here.

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This page is about Meredith Sue Willis: general announcements she wants to share, her books, her teaching, and other projects. Her books include novels and short fiction for adults; stories for children; and nonfiction on writing and the writing process. For a full list, click here.  Click here for information about MSW's upcoming appearances, teaching and workshops. There is also information for writers (Resources for Writers and A Journal of Practical Writing) along with reviews of all kinds of books and excellent things to watch, listen to, and read online. If you discover broken links or typographical errors, please email msw@meredithsuewillis.com

 

A new Issue of Books for Readers #239-- reviews by Edwina Pendarvis, Diane Simmons, and Christine Willis. Reviews of Books by Laura Tillman, Amor Towels, Jane Austen, Charles W. Chestnutt, Octavia Butler, Emma Cline, and many more.

 

The latest issue of The Hamilton Stone Review at No. 52, Spring 2023 .

The Hamilton Stone Review
Spring 2025 Issue #52
Now available for your reading pleasure!

 

Poetry by Molly Tamarkin, Rick Adang, Ryan McCarty, Andrey Gritsman, David Salner, Carolyn Steinhoff, Ken Pobo, Mary Dean Lee, Michael Hettich, Frederick Pollack, Paul Nelson, Claire Scott, John Repp, Elisa Mishto, Sheila E. Murphy, Tony Beyer, Priscilla Atkins, William Doreski, Heather Holliger. Thomas Palakeel, Abigail Michelini, Robert Fillman, Alessio Zanelli.

Prose by Ryan Eshoff, Seth Fox, Kathie Giorgio, Roger Mitchell, Richie Swanson, Rob Swystun, Edward Voeller, Danny Williams.

The Hamilton Stone Review, an online literary magazine, publishes two issues a year, generally Spring and Fall.  The reading period is usually April and October. For more information and to see when submissions open again, click here.

 

New story by Danny Williams! More Danny Williams at The Practical Writer and
Adventures in the Written Word

 

Poetry month for this year is over, but you can still get wonderful poems delivered to your inbox. Sign up for Poem-a-Day here.Here's a family poem I like a lot by Edward Hirsch.

 

MSW short-short story "Recessional" now up at The Raven's Perch.

Suzanne McConnell Speaking on her bookPity the Poor Reader and Kurt Vonnegut at the Frenchtown Bookstore in Frenchtown, New Jersey on Sunday June 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM

 

New story by Danny Williams! More Danny Williams at The Practical Writer andAdventures in the Written Word

 

"A Survivor's Guide to the Long, Slow, Infuriating Process of Revision: Peter Ho Davies Offers Advice for Beginners

 

A Blog to help writers with motivation "Karinwritesdangerously" features MSW on Sharing Stories.

May Issue of Adventures in the Written Word with Danny Williams

"The Key to a Realistic Writing Plan" from Authors Publish

"Stunning Sentences" about--you guessed it--writing great sentences. (thanks to Norm Danzig)

And a good ghost story by John Colman Wood in the Sun magazine: "Nectar" (Thanks, Jason Trask).

Books for Readers #239: Book Reviews and Information for Readers and Writers

 

 

 

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E-book Versions of MSW books

To buy any of these books as e-books, click on the image. They are also available at the
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RECENT MSW REVIEWS, APPEARANCES, & MORE

• MSW's latest appearances and publications

• "The Craft of Story Telling" Video with Meredith Sue Willis

• Rediscovered:  Libraries Today: West Virginia Library Commission Interview with Meredith Sue Willis about Their House

• Using a MSW Novel as a Teaching tool for Writers

• Samples of MSW's novels. Please be patient--the page loads slowly.

• Audio recording of MSW reading "The Sweetest Man Who Ever Lived" from the Cold Mountain Review

• Women of Appalachia Speak

MSW and others reading at Women of Appalachia Project Women Speak at the Frank & Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State 4-13-24. Left to right: Patsy Kisner, Kristi Stevens Walke, Jennifer Browne, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Rose Smith, Meredith Sue Willis, Bonnie Proudfoot, Susan Truxell Sauter, ,Nathalie Sypolt, Cat Pleska.

• 5 star review of Dwight's House and Other Stories

• Comments on MSW's newest online short-short story "Recessional:"

  A wonderful interweaving of she feels and what "we" are experiencing. That whoosh down the tunnel.    -- Elaine Durbach

  Beautifully written. I love the kindness and acceptance that speak through the story.      -- Birgit Matzerath

  Expertly woven and intricately pieced to create the experience both intrinsically
  and extrinsically! Wonderful moments to experience in your superb word craft.
            -- Karen Hudkins Morgan

• Hilton Obenzinger on Love Palace
  "In Martha, Meredith Sue Willis has created a great hardboiled narrator. She’s been hurt and pissed off,mainly by her two “rotters,” her father and her ex-husband, and the world that’s dealt her a tough hand, and she finds relief throughd sex and constant instability, confiding in her therapist, when she can afford her. She’s ready for change, and stumbles into the Love Palace, a church, a social center, and an organizing HQ for its elusive charismatic spiritual leader, and by happenstance she becomes its administrator. The Love Palace is among the last low-income housing buildings in the riverside New Jersey neighborhood being overrun by gentrification, and it becomes the focal point for a fight to save what’s left. The Love Palace is a catalyst, pulling together multiple lives and stories into a pulsating community. Martha ends up cajoled to marry a much younger man, scion of the rich couple who owns the Love Palace as a project of their church – or at least we think they own it. The Love Palace community fights eviction and demolition, and knowing who owns the building is crucial – and knowing the truth about the spiritual leader as well. The novel is filled with surprises and revelations as the mysteries peel away, and Martha grows increasingly capable of handling the madness of seduction, deceit, and betrayal. Love Palace, the novel, is a delight to read, and Martha is a tough character worth meeting again and again." 

 

 

Especially for Writers & Readers: Books, Writing Craft, Language

• March 2025 Adventures in the Written Word: Writing it with Danny Williams
  An interesting essay about Two Heroes: a Memoirist who survived a concentration camp and the general whose division liberated him.

• MSW's Collection of Articles for Writers
  

• Fatima Shaik's nonfiction Economy Hall is recommended byThe New York Times!!

• Using the Past Habitual Tense in Fiction Writing

• Estelle Erasmus's podcasts at Freelance Writing Direct: Conversations with Authors, Journalists, Agents, Novelists, Memoirists, Niche Writers, Agents, and More!

• Ben Shepherd's suggestions for marketing online.  He sells services, but also has lots of good free ideas.

• Nancy Wayson Dinan on What MFA Programs Do and Don't Do for Aspiring Novelists (2024)

• Dialogue punctuation: Reedsy's six "unbreakable" rules for dialogue punctuation.

• MasterClass on Writing a novel in the Present Tense

• Various types of third person in fiction

• One hundred tips to improve your novel  from Ryan Chapman at Literary Hub

• Alison Louise Hubbard: How I Got My Book Published

 

 

 

 

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