Interview: Poet Nina Forsythe by Jessica Palumbo

I have been interested for a while in how a person shares their creative self with others. Toying with this question, I thought of talking to local poet Nina Forsythe, who currently runs creative writing workshops for both the Cumberland YMCA’s Girls Group Home and an elementary school student workshop at the Frostburg Public Library. [...]

Regional Opportunities: CityLit Press

Shopping around a manuscript? You might want to look close to home. CityLit Press is a new imprint of the Baltimore based CityLit Project. The small press is especially looking for titles by Maryland authors. According to the website, “The mission of CityLit Press is to publish books that, because of literary quality or regional [...]

Trends: How to become involved in open-air publishing

As featured in Poets & Writers Magazine‘s News and Trends, open-air publishing is growing in popularity as “innovative independent publishers continue to find ways to thread literature into the social fabric.” What is open-air publishing? From poets passing out poems on street corners to public bathroom stall tape-ups, this form of publishing is all about [...]

Local Works-in-Progress Writing Contest

If you are a creative writer, chances are you have stacks of half-completed, in-progress, or “just needs one more looking over” pieces. How about a chance to earn some recognition for all that hard work? Well, that is exactly what one local writer’s group is offering. The Works in Progress Writers’ Workshop is running a [...]