June’s Words and Wine Wednesday featured author is Greg Garrett, whose latest book, Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination, explores the reasons why people tell tales about death and the afterlife. […]
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Summer 2015 Retreat Specials
Posted onCalling all Creatives—In and Out of the Lonestar State! It’s summer, which means the kids are home from school, the days are long, and the writing projects get pushed to […]
Continue ReadingWe Need Diverse Books Meet & Greet at The Writing Barn
Posted onJoin us Sunday, May 17th, 4:30- 6:00 PM at The Writing Barn for a Meet & Greet with We Need Diverse Books! Mix and mingle with authors who offer diverse […]
Continue ReadingTwo $300 Scholarships To Be Awarded for the YA, MG & More Full Novel Revision Week May 30th
Posted onThanks to the success of our latest daylong and weekend Write Away Days, The Writing Barn is excited to award two $300 need-based scholarships to any writers interested in attending […]
Continue ReadingAustin Author Spotlight with Nikki Loftin
Posted onThe Writing Barn is so excited to welcome author Nikki Loftin as the visiting guest, alongside author Joy Preble, for April’s Words and Wine Wednesday! Nikki’s latest release, Wish Girl, has […]
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Full Novel Revision Week at The Writing Barn
Posted onIt’s that time of year again, when the Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes begin to pop up to signal the coming of spring, and also the coming of The Writing Barn’s […]
Continue ReadingEvent Recap: Words and Wine Wednesday with Natalia Sylvester
Posted onMarch 25th wound up being a breezy, warm day, and The Writing Barn welcomed the spring weather by holding March’s Words and Wine Wednesday event on the Barn’s party porch! […]
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Writing Barn Austin Author Spotlight Authors Shine in the New York Times
Posted onThe Writing Barn just has to brag on some amazing local authors who’ve recently been featured in The New York Times’ Sunday Book Review. Mary Helen Specht visited The Writing […]
Continue ReadingAustin Author Spotlight with Natalia Sylvester
Posted onMarch is officially Natalia Sylvester month at The Writing Barn, and we couldn’t be more excited! Sylvester is a talented author with a critically acclaimed debut book, Chasing the Sun, now under […]
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Rejecting Rejection with author Liz Czukas
Posted onThis weeks Rejecting Rejection is from Liz Czukas. She talks about rejection and never giving up because of rejection. Just because a piece has been rejected does not mean that […]
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