Writing

In Paris, there are so many places worth seeing. We’ve seen them on postcards and Facebook posts. But out of all the places I’ve...

A new short story just in time for Halloween from Port Townsend author Karen Clemens. Photo by Al Bergstein. The Farm was built by a...

"Calypso, Rhyme of the Modern Mariner" Forty years after the fact, longtime Port Townsend residents Dennis and Pat McGuire are finally telling their story, and...

Okay. Whew. This is, indeed the life. And… sigh. The one I was looking for. Breathing into it. Owning the length of time, and...

Three Port Townsend based authors have received significant recognition for their work. JoAnne Tompkins has been awarded the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for...

A few days after Karen died, the phone rang. It was the funeral director, informing me that her remains were ready to be picked...

Port Townsend readers may find this emotionally gripping novel by former Port Townsend writer, Michael Daley, hauntingly familiar.  Telémachus is a timeless dream of a book that takes place in a...

I am in the thick, green, wet and sparkly Maine woods. My writing station set up with tea, breakfast, and Merlin bird app, to...

Seventeen years ago today, August 29, 2005—also a Monday—Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in Louisiana and Mississippi, changing a multitude of lives forever. The storm...