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Scrivas, Part 6: And Now… The Amazing Addie Boswell

Now for Addie Boswell, an extraordinarily gifted woman, whose creativity is too large to confine to the written page. Yes, she writes children’s books, and that’s how I’ve come to know her. But she is likely better known as a muralist.

“My business is telling stories,” she says on her website. “I believe in the power of story, the imagination of children, and the necessity of duct tape.” Addie invites us to “write, draw, color, paint, cut, paste, build, dance, stomp or otherwise express yours...

Scrivas, Part 5 : Nicole Schreiber, Word Artist

Nicole Marie Schreiber describes herself as a “word artist” from Portland, Oregon, and the phrase couldn’t be more apt. Nicole has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and writes picture books, fiction for children and adults, poetry, and plays. Other pursuits include spreading her love of the written word to all, performance art, dance, history, and travel. She has had two living history plays performed every year for the last nine years wit...

Nicole Marie Schreiber: Word Artist

Nicole describes herself as a “word artist” from Portland, Oregon, and the phrase couldn’t be more apt. She has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and writes picture books, fiction for children and adults, poetry, and plays. Other pursuits include spreading her love of the written word to all, performance art, dance, history, and travel. She has had two living history plays performed every year for the last nine years with the West Linn Hi...

Scrivas, Part 4: The Wide World of Liz Rusch

You’ll have to visit Elizabeth (Liz) Rusch’s website to see all the books and articles she’s written over the decades. It’s an amazing collection of fiction and nonfiction. I’ve livened up dinner parties and entertained grandchildren with info gleaned from Liz’s submissions to the Scrivas on, say, volcano formation, or Maria Mozart, or the ozone layer, to name a few of the very many topics. Two of my recent favorite Liz books are her graphic novel, Muddy Max, and her nonfiction book on harnes...

The Wide World of Elizabeth Rusch

You’ll have to visit Liz’s website to see all the books and articles she’s written over the decades. It’s an amazing collection of fiction and nonfiction. I’ve livened up dinner parties and entertained grandchildren with info gleaned from Liz’s submissions to the Scrivas on, say, volcano formation, or Maria Mozart, or the ozone layer, to name a few of the very many topics. Two of my recent favorite Liz books are her graphic novel, Muddy Max, and her nonfiction book on harnessing energy from t...

Scrivas, Part 3: Kudos to Amber J. Keyser

If we Scrivas had an annual Most Productive Writer award in our critique group, we’d give it to Amber this year, along with a well deserved trip to her favorite ski lodge or spa.

Amber is the author of the forthcoming Pointe, Claw (Carolrhoda Lab, 2017), a novel about two girls claiming their own personal power; The V-Word (Beyond Words, 2016), an anthology of personal essays by women about first-time sexual experiences; The Way Back from Broken (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), a heart-wrenching novel...

Kudos to Amber J. Keyser

If we Scrivas had an annual Most Productive Writer award, we’d give it to Amber this year, along with a well deserved trip to her favorite ski lodge or spa.

Amber is the author of the forthcoming Pointe, Claw (Carolrhoda Lab, 2017), a novel about two girls claiming their own personal power; The V-Word (Beyond Words, 2016), an anthology of personal essays by women about first-time sexual experiences; The Way Back from Broken (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), a heart-wrenching novel of loss and survival;...

Scrivas, Part 2: Sara Ryan, The Newbie!

While some of us Scrivas have been together since the critique group was formed, other writers have come and gone, or, as I’d like to think, are taking a long sabbatical. Sara is the newest among us and, as you can read in her Viva Scriva blog post, she didn’t take joining lightly.

What can I say about Sara? The short version is that she is a Portland (Oregon)-based writer who works as a librarian and who will be teaching a “Writing the Other: Comics and Graphic Novels” class on September 10....

Sara Ryan, The Newest Scriva

While some of us Scrivas have been together since the critique group was formed, other writers have come and gone, or, as I’d like to think, are taking a long sabbatical. Sara is the newest among us and, as you can read in her Viva Scriva blog post, she didn’t take joining lightly.

What can I say about Sara? The short version is that she is a Portland (Oregon)-based writer who works as a librarian and who will be teaching a “Writing the Other: Comics and Graphic Novels” class on September 10....

Scrivas, Part 1: Meet Melissa Dalton

First up for my feature of the Viva Scriva critique group is Melissa Dalton, who has been with this writer’s critique group for as long as I have. Melissa is a freelancewriterwho has focused on Pacific Northwest design and lifestyle since 2008, when she started out as an Assistant Editor at Portland Spaces (a now-defunct magazine). Since 2012, she has been a regular contributing writer for the design department at1859: Oregon’s Magazine, where she profiles various aspects of home and commerci...