By David T. Valentin As is the case as of lately, a mediocre white man comes out and puts themselves on the guillotine to be ridiculed by...

By David T. Valentin For the past decade, Emmy Award-winning writer Suleika Jaouad has been outspoken on her experiences with cancer back...

By Lori Perkins All my New Year’s Eve plans were canceled due to the Omicron viral surge. For the second year in a row, I said to my...

By David T. Valentin “So, what are you going to do with a liberal arts degree?” one might ask a wide-eyed and naïve student going into...

By David T. Valentin Just before Christmas, the American author, novelist and essayist, Joan Didion, passed away at 87 years old. The...

By Lori Perkins Have you always wanted to write a Christmas/holiday story? Now is the time. Riverdale Avenue Books, the award-winning...

By Lori Perkins How amazing it that an entire nation (of writers and people who love and support them) is focusing on writing fiction...

By David T. Valentin On Friday I had the opportunity to attend a panel titled, “Building Worlds for Women: Wattpad Books Authors on...

By David T. Valentin With the pandemic still negatively impacting hospitals across the United States and vaccine records being a point of...

By Lori Perkins Let me just preface this essay by sharing my shock that I have actually kind of fallen in love with the TV show Ted Lasso....

By Rachel Zimny The short story “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian was published almost four years ago in The New Yorker and was...

By Lori Perkins For those who were alive and reading in the late 20th century, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were fixtures on the...

By David T. Valentin On June 1st, Lambda Literary hosted its 33rd annual Lambda Literary Awards, famously abbreviated as “The Lammys,”...

By Lori Perkins Only two people alive today have ever seen the collection of 29 hand-written Emily Bronte poems that Sotheby’s is...

By Dawn M. Barclay, Chapter President When I became president of the Hudson Valley RWA in July of 2019, it was more the result of an...