by Ray Foy We tend to consider sets of commandments as ultimate law (i.e., the famous Ten). Within the context of drama, I have found five that struck me as important because they refine and enlarge the dramatic arc of storytelling. The dramatic arc is the integral component of fiction (and creative nonfiction). It has… Read More The Five Story Commandments
by Brad Shurmantine Always one foot on the groundAnd by protecting my heart trulyI got lost in the soundsAll of these voicesI hear in my mind all these wordsAnd it breaks my heartIt breaks my heart. –Regina Spektor In Search of Eros. That was the name of an LP that played over and over behind… Read More Fidelity
By Jayne Padgett Bowers The first South Carolinian to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Julia Peterkin won the coveted award in 1929, and though the honor was controversial at the time, Peterkin’s Scarlet Sister Mary, a novel about the Gullah people of the South Carolina coast, triumphed. Recently, I’ve become aware that many South… Read More South Carolina’s Pulitzer Prize Winner
