by Matthew Bennett | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog
I first met Tommie Whitener in Madison Park when he was up from San Francisco visiting family. He told me about a few writing projects that really sparked my interest. But what truly connected us was our conversation about families. Both our kin are from Arkansas, and...
by Matthew Bennett | Sep 18, 2018 | Blog
Another writer of ours has published his first book. In an absolute first for us, this book has already been transformed into a downloadable audiobook. In The Hero’s Brother, M. Scott Anderson presents a rollicking adventure with a very literary bent. It’s a fantasy...
by Matthew Bennett | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog
The capstone to the residency I just completed with Seattle7Writers was a night of public reading. The charismatic and wonderful Jennie Shortridge hosted the event at Elliott Bay Books. There I joined past residents Janet Buttenwieser and Sierra Nelson to read...
by Matthew Bennett | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog
This brief post is to announce that I’ve taken on the volunteer position of Vice President of Member Services with the Northwest Editors Guild. The Northwest Editors Guild promotes the craft of editing and helps organize and educate member editors through...
by Matthew Bennett | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
Thomas McCormack’s The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist (Paul Dry, 1988) is a standard guide for editors of novels. Similar (and better) works now offer a more schematic approach. I’ll review the related Self-Editing for the Fiction Writer (William...
by Matthew Bennett | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Happy news for the writer in me: on Monday I began a writing residency with Seattle7Writers! This means that I have my own office in Ballard for the next four months. I will use the space to focus on a short story I’ve been developing. This story is set in...
