Join seasoned mystery author Flo McCahon as she presents The History of Mysteries. Starting with the writings of Maryland author Edgar Allan Poe, Flo will guide participants through the development of the genre to the present day. In addition to examining the craft of mysteries, she will also highlight Maryland’s…
Mary Ann Jung is an award-winning actress and Smithsonian Scholar who performs delightful and inspiring shows about amazing women in history. She has appeared on CNN and Good Morning America and done numerous shows for the National Archives and Smithsonian Museums. She has been a lead actress and Royal Court…
Because of Maryland’s Shelter-In-Place Order MWA has Cancelled all in-person meetings until further notice Due to concerns about the Coronavirus, we have been forced to cancel this month’s meeting, Writer’s Block Workshop, and postpone the workshop with C.J. Crowe to another month. In part, this is because Maryland Hall will…
***POSTPONED*** Are you feeling frozen inside? Stuck in your head? Locked-up and, therefore, unable to write? Do you have a story idea coming to mind, but something is thwarting the starting process? Are you starting to feeling discouraged, demoralized, inadequate? Most writers will agree they have suffered through the creative…
March 20th at 7pm join us and speaker Susan Moger as she will give the presentation “Shaping the Story of You: From Memories to Memoir”. If you are writing to release your memories, distill their meaning, and shape them into stories, this can be the most surprising and meaningful writing…
What does it take to get a review from a well-respected review site? How do you get that killer blurb for your bookcover? Join us March 15th when Senior Editor of the Washington Independent Review of Books (WIRoB) Carrie Callahan joins MWAA to give us the skinny on how the…
In 1817, German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffman (1776 – 1822) wrote the short story “The Sandman”. Hoffman was in the vanguard of the short story movement. He did not anticipate that nearly two hundred years later his work would be the inspiration for a 1959 mobster graphic novel, Mobtown. On…
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Julia Vickers, a local area writer and filmmaker, will speak on March 18, 2015. Movies and novels talk to us about our culture and about ourselves. Join Julia Vickers, producer of the documentary Jungian Archetype in Film, to discuss classic novels and films that have endured. The Wizard of Oz,…