MWA IS LOOKING FOR A FEW WONDERFUL WORKSHOPS Are you ready to wow audiences with your expertise in the craft of writing, the development of a genre, the business of writing, or another writing topic? MWA is now taking workshop applications for Brain to Bookshelf 2025, our annual conference, being ...

Congratulations to the following authors. Their works, chosen from the many pieces published in Pen in Hand, have been nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize. "Their Very Bones," Abby Kusmin"A Málà Proposal," Joanne Oh"Wonder of Ordinary Days," Lois Villemaire"A Greedy Animal," Terri Simon"...

Greetings, Creative MWA Author! From the office of MWA's Executive Committee President, hello and welcome to April 2025!  Beginning with April Fools and ending in April showers, Maryland will be in an inspirational state of change this month.  Since inspiration begets great art, as a matt...

Greetings, Artful MWA Constituent! From the office of MWA's Executive Committee President, hello and welcome to March 2025! Springtime in Maryland is a time and place of pure inspiration.  If you walk or pedal a few miles along any one of this state's many outstanding public trails I am confid...

Greetings, Artful MWA Constituent! From the office of MWA's Executive Committee President, hello and welcome to February 2025!  This is often the coldest, dreariest month of the year, which can have a dampening effect on the average spirit, but writers are not average people, so I know you wil...