Meredith Sue Willis

Author and Teacher

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Holly St. Lifer's AOL health blog
Dory Adams: In this Light
Barbara Riddle-Dvorak
The Compulsive Reader
National Book Critics Circle Claudia Carlson
Sherry Chandler
Shelley Ettinger: Read Red

Fred First
Lally's Alley (Michael Lally)
Judy Moffett
Valerie Nieman
Cat Pleska 
Dee Rimbaud
Save the Papers
(Woody Lewis)

Larissa Shmailo
Diane Simmons
Christopher Vera
David Weinberger
Lisa WIlliams
Loho (Group Blog about the Lower East Side)
Brooklyn Parrots Blog!
 

 

Writers' Websites:
Here's a webpage at Yahoo that I set up in about 5 minutes.

Reasonably priced author websites: http://www.webforauthors.com

Deedee Agee
Roberta Allen
Belinda Anderson
Pat Arnow
Ellen Bass
Neva Jean Bryan
Ed Davis
Norah Dooley
Barbara Crooker
Jane Ciabattari
Pamela Erens
Carol Emshwiller
Shelley Ettinger

Hanging Loose Press Blog
Jane Hicks
Monique Raphel High
Silas House
Tayari Jones
Nathan Leslie
Phillip Lopate
George Ella Lyon
Jeff Mann
Lee Maynard
Sara Miller
Judith Moffett
Ed Myers
Hilton Obenzinger
Lance Olsen 
Cat Pleska
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Larissa Shmailo
Juanita Torrence-
Thompson

Laura Thompson
Rhea Tregebov
Robert W. Walker
BJ Ward
Crystal Wilkinson
Edgardo Vega Yunque
Larry Zirlin
 
FamilyOriented Websites
Ellen Kahaner's Mural class
Reading and Traveling with Kids
More
Jeremy Osner
 
Art, Music, Mixed Media, and More!
Dory Adams: n this Light
Linda Adato

Tim Barnwell Appalachian Images
Rachel Burgess
Charlie Cowger
Marian Howard watercolors
at the Davis Project
Alex Kato-Willis improvizinging on piano
More of Alex--
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32

Deep Listening
Ann Olson
Dee Rimbaud
Rochelle Ratner
Kevin Scanlon
Peter Sciaino
Duane Smith
Slow Poke Comix
Tiny Tim Memorial Web Site

Randi Ward
Ella Yang

Want some great graphics?
http://ann-s-thesia.com/


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Columbia U. 1968 Page
Nordic Walking
Weinberger Explains the Web

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Ethical Culture Society
Fiction Matters
Appalachian Audiobooks
Sam. Pepys Diary
Poetry Daily
Smashbooks Digital Books
Verse Daily
Poet of the Week from NC
World Wide Words

Writers Almanac


New Writing Exercise 2-7-10  

Issue #20 of The Hamilton Stone Review  just up: Poetry!  Creative nonfiction!  Stories and novel excerpts! 

Poetry by Matthew DeBord, Elizabeth Dodd, Steve Ely, Susan Firer, Jeff Gundy, James Hazard, Jane Hilberry, Christine Holland, George Kalamaras, Karen Kovacik, Mercedes Lawry, Alison Luterman, David Mason, Christine Rhein, Elaine Sexton, Sean Singer, Joe Somoza, Bert Stern, Richard Stolorow, Chase Twichell, Mark Young, and Harriet Zinnes;  Fiction by Jack Dowling, Beverly Gologorsky, Sybil Kollar, Jocelyn Lieu, and Miguel Antonio Ortiz; Nonfiction by Sherisse Alvarez, CL Bledsoe, Clyde L. Borg, Chris Echaurre, Christina Holzhauser, Randall Horton, Ingrid Hughes, Jim McGarrah, Meg Morley, and Peter Stensen.

 

Latest from the Authors' Guild on the Google Book Scan Issue

 

Books for Readers #128-- Commemoration of the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins


Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond leave the Woolworth store
after the first sit-in on February 1, 1960.

 

 

See Shelley Ettinger's comments on Zinn at Workers World.
Howard Zinn wrote in his memoir You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Boston, Beacon Press: 1994, p. 208) :

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

 

 

My New Blog

I've Just started a new blog about literature and the web, and the rest of the digital world. Please take a look at it here.

 


Photo from "Up on the Hill" in Shinnston,
by Charlie Cowger, looking northeast.

We've had some deaths:
Howard Zinn
J.D. Salinger

Personally, I'll miss Professor Zinn more.

From my archives:
About Literature and the Web

Latest Writing Exercise 

A Selection of classic and contemporary
short stories to read on the web

Latest news about MSW--
commentary on her work and more

Hamilton Stone Review # 19

Upcoming MSW Appearances and Announcements

Read More Small Press Books !

"Tara White" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize

 

 

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

 

 

 

Various Articles and Web Sites

Check out a literary agent's survey on readers anad e-readers.
Frequently Asked Questions about Writing
Management for Writers
Articles That Might Interest You: Should you hire a book doctor? And many more...
Recent Publication: Short Story
"My Most Embarrassing"
Online at Two Hawks Quarterly
Bloodroot Literary Magazine has a reading series for people they publish.
MSW's article on Jayne Anne Phillips in Appalachian Heritage
Book List: Books and Articles about Columbia University and the Late Nineteen-Sixties
Fiction Matters website
On the Google book scanning project
A literary agent's advice: Should You Hire a Book Doctor?
Lucy Writes a Novel: Classic T.V. from I Love Lucy
Raymond Carver's Grave; Chuck Kinder as a Teacher-- Dory Adams' blog
Dory Adams on Walker Evans and Maggie Anderson
Do you have a young friend who needs help writing college essays? Check out this article.
Hemingway's last book
"Transparency is the new Objectivity"
Self-editing
Kate Long interviews Irene McKinney, West Virginia's poet laureate, on Youtube.
Article on What Young Agents Want from Poets & Writers Magazine
Obituary of George Scheeman, who did the covers of two of my books:
More obituaries
There are many excellent small literary magazines to read in hard copy and online. Bloodroot Literary Magazine , for example, has my story "Tara White." Read an excerpt here.
More things to Read
What is a Kindle? My brother-in-law explains on NPR
How to Mark a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
Worst Query Letter Ever
Resources for Writers
Page for Teens
Articles. essays & web sites on books and writers
News about MSW and upcoming appearances
The Ethical Culture Review of Books
The Hamilton Stone Review All-West Virginia Issue
 

 


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MSW's Books

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In the Mountains of America (Appalachian Short Stories )

Dwight's House and Other Stories
(Short Stories)

Oradell at Sea
(Novel)

The City Built of Starships
(Science Fiction)

Quilt Pieces (chapbook)

Higher Ground
(Novel-- First book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

Only Great Changes
(Novel-- Second book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

Trespassers
(Novel-- Final book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

A Space Apart
(MSW's First Novel-- reprint edition)

Billie of Fish
House Lane

(Novel for Children )


The Secret Super
Powers of Marco

(Novel for Children )

Marco's Monster
(Novel for Children )
 

Blazing Pencils
(How-to-Write
Book for Students )
 

Personal Fiction Writing
(How-to-Write for Teachers & Writers )

Deep Revision
(How-to-Write for Teachers & Writers )