Author: Ron Koertge

I know we’re kids’ writers, but when Harry Crews died recently, literature lost a true original. He was Southern Gothic. Very gothic. Think Flannery O’Connor on crank. Profane, disturbing, and truly strange, he...

If you’ve been following the “SLJ” Battle of the Books, my piece is up today at the School Library Journal site. It was a hard call, pitting what you might call a small book against a large one. Drawing vs....

Every writer has war stories — a restless, sullen audience; a hotel with a horse in the room just above and a satyr next door; delayed flights and stomach flu.Well, I’m here with good news: I’m just back from...

I was e-chatting with a former student, a woman from the Vermont program, so we’re going back a ways. She’d been reading craft books and instead of giving her wings, they turned into concrete shoes. She wasn’t...

As most of you know, I don’t believe in writer’s block. Daily, crappy writing is the solution to that chimerical dilemma. But if someone thinks he/she is blocked and just wants to limber up, here’s something...