Thanks for Making Our Big Event a BIG Success!

Thank you to everyone who attended our third Annual Ballard Writers Event at the Sunset Hill Community Association. It was a day filled with books, readings, crafts and FUN.  The day ended with the Three Minute Challenge featuring new work by fifteen Ballard writers.  If  you missed it, a few of the participants have posted their story below.  To read, just click on any of the the links.

Dear Mom – By Peggy Sturdivant

Luck – By Alma Garcia

Jingle, Interlude, Slump – By Jay Craig

Diary of a Mad Housewife – By Alison Krupnick

Lessons from Unemployment – By Michael Harthorne

My Year as  Tyrant – By Joshua McNichols

Jingle – By Helen Landalf

Anxiety – By Quinn Smart

 

Find Our Books At Secret Garden

Looking for a great holiday gift? Check out the Ballard Writer book section at Secret Garden Book Store on Market Street in Ballard.  (Our book section is tucked in the right side corner –when entering –of the shop near the front window). Great books from every genre ..and many of them are SIGNED!

 

Writers on Writers

Want to get to know the writers that make up the Ballard Writers Collective? Check out our weekly Writers on Writers profiles.

This week we are spotlighting Rita Bresnahan, author of Walking One Another Home: Moments of Grace and Possibility in the Midst of Alzheimer’s. Rita is an alumna of Hedgebrook, on the staff of Crone: Women Coming of Age, and a frequent keynote speaker for conferences. She has offered hundreds of workshops, such as “With a Laughing Spirit,” “Aging as a Spiritual Journey,” “Creating Joy in Caregiving,” and “Leaving a Spiritual Legacy.” She also coaches aspiring writers. To read more about this inspiring woman, click here.