by Jane Harrington I have had the distinct pleasure this summer of seeing a short story of mine in the literary journal Chautauqua, an ...

by Jane Harrington I ’ m just finishing up a month at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), my first foray into a residency...

by Jane Harrington I just listened to a pretty right-on lecture about fiction writing by Jenna Blum ( The Author at Work: The Art of Wr...

by Jane Harrington Green is washing over winter’s wan fields in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where I live, teach and write. I have s...

by Jane Harrington I recently returned from a residency in the lettered city of Pittsburgh where I spent a couple of weeks buzzing aro...

by Jane Harrington I don’t know about you, but the approach of the holiday season puts me less in the mood for penning and more in the ...

by Jane Harrington November is here—leaves are blowing in circles around us, the first logs of the season are being tossed in fireplace...

by Jane Harrington The trials and tribulations of young college students fill my days again, and while I dare not try to help them sort...

by Jane Harrington About this time last summer I suggested a looksee at NaNoWriMo’s Young WritersProgram  because there you can find...

by Jane Harrington Just returned from a writing extravaganza in Ireland —part retreat in the remote reaches of the island, part bustlin...

by Jane Harrington A creative friend of mine (okay, fellow writer and Pencil Tips blogger Jacqueline Jules) suggested I share some ...

by Jane Harrington For those of us writers of English who were lucky enough to grow up with this language   (nothing to be taken for gr...

by Jane Harrington Too many words! You already said that! I often want to scribble those complaints across essays I get from my Col...

by Jane Harrington Happy New Year to all you Pencil Tippers out there! For my own part, I’m resolving to be more resourceful with my ...

by Jane Harrington I was listening just the other day to an NPR interview of Julie Bruck, the poet who just won the Governor General’s ...

by Jane Harrington In my last post I gaily embraced the creativity of cutting and pasting summer scraps into journals to spur original ...

by Jane Harrington It’s that time of year again: kids are sitting at desks, doing jumping jacks in the gym, and standing in lunch lines...

by Jane Harrington There may be a swath of summer still ahead, but if you’re a teacher, right about now you probably can’t get fall off...